MyBank.com Hit With UDRP

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A UDRP has been filed on the domain name MyBank.com.

The domain just came off of privacy days ago at Moniker.com

MyBank.com was under privacy since 2009 before privacy was removed a few days ago.

MyBank.com back in 2009 was owned by another party than currently appears to hold the domain.

The domain shows a original registration date of 2002 when it was owned by  Berea National Bank which appears to have been the original registrant.

The is one trademark with the USPTO on the term My Bank and it was filed back in 1995 by First United National Bank & Trust and the trademark was renewed in 2011.

The domain name MyBank.com, is currently parked with ads for generic banking services and accounts.

The domain name appears to have been parked since at least 2009 as well.

It should be an interesting one and we will let you know how it turns out.

 

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

Comments

  1. BrianWick says

    Will this mean that someone will be going after some of mine like:
    MyHospital.com
    MyVision.com
    MyTraffic.com

    or how about

    MyAsshole.com
    MyHardOn.com
    MyLeftHand.com

    ONLY If someone can lay claim to BANK then they can lay claim to MyBank.com – otherwise – regardless of TMs – they need to prove secondary meaning – and that is non-existent.

  3. Michael Berkens says

    There are a lot

    Many however have my with a well known TM another current one for example is mypaypal.com

    GM lost the UDRP on mycadillac.com but it wasn’t a parked page

    Here we have a 25 year old registered trademark with a 4 year history of a parked page

  5. BrianWick says

    Strike 1:
    Complainant is very local like the furthest 2 branches are 200 miles apart. – The way I understand it – for generics to take on secondary meaning they need to be in at least 5 states

    Strike 2:
    My Bank New Mexico is about as local as the Complainant – demonstrating NO Secondary meaning as well.

    Strike 3:
    HelpWithMyBank.gov demonstrates the huge burden the Complainant needs to overcome in exploiting the generic term and commonly used term “My Bank”.

    Plus several other registered TM’s contain MY BANK per the USPTO.

    Hopefully this is not like the Korean guy that just rolled over on NiceCar.com

  7. BrianWick says

    yes Bulls – and my thought for the day is a nice complement:
    MyHairyAsshole.com 🙂