Manwin International the owner of some of the most visited adult sites on the net, including Youporn.com and PornHub.com, which has filed a couple of UDRP of their own as a complainant, has just been hit with a UDRP on a domain name they own, Xart.com
While the complainant of the UDRP is not showing up yet, I found one trademark on the term Xart in the US Trademark database, and it was just filed in November 2012, by Click Here LLC of Malibu, California for use as Adult entertainment.
The domain name Xart.com has an original creation date of November 1998, or some 14 years earlier.
The domain Xart.com was owned as early as 2010 by D.C.I. Daily Capital Investment with a contact of the current CEO of Manwin Fabian Thylmann, but Manwin did not show up as the owner of the domain until January of 2013.
The domain name is not currently resolving.
Screenshots.com last has a record of a site on this domain in January 2011 (graphic).
Should be an interesting one
Quick, someone get Fabian Thylmann out of jail, so he can address this.
There is also a trademark for x-art with a filing date of February 21, 2012 from the same company. They own the domain name x-art.com.
Complaint denied…
To me, a Manwin UDRP is not nearly as interesting as the fact that, today, ICM announced that .nxt organizer, Kieren McCarthy has taken over as the head of IFFOR.
The IFFOR Board of Directors does not have one single owner or operator of an adult business among its membership. Now, with the firing of Joan Irvine–someone who actually did come out of the adult industry–the staff does not have any adult representation. Moreover, the foundation’s mission has now changed. how exactly is IFFOR the .xxx sponsorship community?
michellek
ICM did not announce that, IFFOR did
Although IFFOR gets funding from ICM they do not control it and if you read their most recently releases they have much more plans that just working on adult issues
and/or just .XXX
Has their ICANN contract changed? It was my understanding that IFFOR was comprised of and represented the .xxx sponsorship community, per ICM’s ICANN agreement.
On slightly different note, I wonder if any of the .nxt registrants will find it ironic that Kieren McCarthy is the new poster boy for Online Responsibility.
“”Has their ICANN contract changed? It was my understanding that IFFOR was comprised of and represented the .xxx sponsorship community, per ICM’s ICANN agreement””
I’m just telling you that IFFOR is expanding into other “functions” unrelated to .XXX
See:
http://www.thedomains.com/2013/01/10/and-now-iffor-is-going-into-the-new-gtld-business/
As for what IFFOR is support to do:
“”
ICM Registry works with a not-for-profit organisation to serve
as the policy-making body for the .XXX extension
That organisation is the International Foundation for Online
Responsibility (IFFOR)
“”
IFFOR is a ‘not-for-profit’ organization
IFFOR is independent from ICM Registry
IFFOR has its own board of directors
IFFOR is led by an Executive Director
IFFOR has its own policy counsel
The policy counsel consists of
5
Sponsored Community (adult industry)
1 Privacy and Security advocate
1 Free speech advocate
1 Child protection advocate
1 ICM Registry representative
See:
http://www.iffor.org/sites/default/files/iffor-presentation.pdf
UPDATE:
This case has been withdrawn and the domain is still owned by Manwin