Marshall Amplification plc, just filed a UDRP against the quite generic domain name of Marshall.com which is owned by Frank Schilling’s Name Administration.
The company filing the compliant makes Marshall Amps and their official site is at MarshallAmps.com
Wikipedia.org has a page dedicated to all the different uses for Marshall and Marshall Amps is only one of them, including 18 cities in the US named Marshall.
Marshallmay refer to:
- “Marshall”, a British/Commonwealth spelling for the military rank of marshal
- Marshall (name)
- Marshall Aerospace, an aerospace contractor based in Cambridge, England
- Marshall Amplification, a brand of guitar amplifier
- Marshall Bus, an English bus manufacturer
- Marshall Cavendish, a subsidiary of Times Publishing Group, publisher of books, directories, magazines and partworks
- Marshalling (computer science), transforming data from an in-memory representation to objects, such as with XML transformation
- Aircraft marshalling, the visual signalling between ground personnel and pilots.
- Marshall Plan(also known as “European Recovery Program”), United States plan (named for Secretary of State George Marshall) for rebuilding the allied countries of Europe and repelling communism after World War II
- Marshall Scholarship, awarded to graduating American undergraduates by the British government, in commemoration of the Marshall Plan
- Marshall Pottery, the largest producer of red-clay pottery in the United States
- Marshall School of Business, the business school at the University of Southern California
- Marshall, Sons & Co. of Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, manufacturers of steam traction engines and the Field Marshall range of tractors
- Marshall University, a university in Huntington, West Virginia
- Marshall Thundering Herd, this school’s intercollegiate athletic program
- We Are Marshall, a 2006 movie about the aftermath of the 1970 plane crash that killed most of the Marshall University football team and coaching staff
- USS Marshall (DD-676), a United States Navy destroyer in commission from 1943 to 1969
- USS Hunter Marshall (DE-602), a United States Navy destroyer escort converted during construction into the high-speed transport USS Hunter Marshall (APD-112)
- USS Hunter Marshall (APD-112), a United States Navy high-speed transport in commission from 1945 to 1946
Place names
- Marshall Islands (also known as “Republic of the Marshall Islands”), an island nation in the Pacific Ocean
In the United States of America:
- Marshall, Alaska
- Marshall, Arkansas
- Marshall, California
- Marshall, former name of Lotus, California
- Marshall Pass, a mountain pass in Colorado
- Marshall, Illinois
- Marshall, Indiana
- Marshall, Michigan
- Marshall, Minnesota
- Marshall, Missouri
- Marshall, Oklahoma
- Marshall, New York
- Marshall, North Carolina
- Marshall, North Dakota
- Marshall, Texas
- Marshall, Virginia
- Marshall, Wisconsin
The domain name is going to a parked page but does not have any refernce to the complaint and does not have any links for Amps or even audio equipment.
Look for another RDNH finding when Mr. Berryhill gets the UDRP decision
RDNH means frivolous which means a bad mark on the attorneys representing these clowns Marshall Amps
Lame attempt to hijack the domain. As you pointed out, there are numerous uses of ‘Marshall’. As long as you are not selling amps you should be ok. It should be a slam dunk win for NA.
I wonder if they’ve been trying to buy it from NA, and wouldn’t meet the asking price?
We will probably find that out in when the decision is issued
Marshall.com – record created 1994
Did someone mention Laches?
You were all pretty sceptic to the Marshall Amp UDRP, take a look at the Who is info….
As of today 2012-11-23
WIPO Case Number D2012-2046
Domain name(s) marshall.com
Complainant: Marshall Amplification plc
Decision: Case active
WHOIS shows a likely settlement that has not been reported yet – the Complainant probably listened to John Berryhill and let free enterprise prevail rather than listening to thier own thugs 🙂
“Marshall.com – record created 1994”
That’s not the right date to look at when it comes to ownership and legal matters.
Frank wasn’t domaining back then.
Correct D S, in legal matters it’s the date of the last owner transfer that is relevant, not when it was registerd in the firstplace.
mrright –
Yes – it has become a convienant lie for some Panels (who will arrive at any conclusion necessary to pay their own bills) that ownership change in a domain resets the clock – where on the PTO (Reality of Real Law) that is not the case.