UDRP Filed Against 16 Year Old Johnsons.com By Johnson & Johnson

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The global brand company Johnson and Johnson just filed a UDRP against the domain name Johnsons.com

Johnsons.com is owned by Widome Design of Potomac, Maryland.

The domain has been owned by the company or its principal since at least 2001 according to DomainTools.com

As you can see from above according to Screenshots.com as of the last archived record it had, Johnsons.com was parked with results for “Johnson Baby Products” showing as the top link.

As a domainer in my mind its one of the rare times that an adult use for the domain may have protected the domain better.  Johnsons is a frequently used term to refer to male genital.  A parked page with adult terms may well have protected this domain better than showing links to Johnson and Johnson products.

 

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. Brad Mugford says

    “Johnson” is the #2 surname in the US with over 1.8M people sharing that name.

    I quick search shows a virtual endless amount of companies, people, groups, and organizations that are using the term “Johnsons” outside any potential adult usage.

    With almost 2M people sharing this name there is clearly a legitimate generic reason to own it as well. There is no way this domain was registered & is being used in bad faith.

    Brad

  4. John Berryhill says

    This domain name has something of an interesting history.

    I believe it was one of the first cases I had noticed was defended by Stephen Sturgeon, who has done some remarkably good work. I think I had gotten off on something of the wrong foot with Steve early on, but I later had a couple of opportunities to work with him, and was impressed by his fine work.

    Here is Johsons.com I:

    http://domains.adrforum.com/domains/decisions/162058.htm

  5. Michael Berkens says

    John

    That is interesting

    Stephen was the first attorney my company retained at Worldwide Media, Inc, and he successfully defended and fought off some UDRP and C & D’s for us until he seemingly fell off the face of the earth, never to be heard from again.

  6. BrianWick says

    Yes – I remember chatting with Stephen Sturgeon at a few of the traffic shows. in fact I think he had a booth at them as well.

  8. John Berryhill says

    He did Brian, and he is not at all like the loud, rude, opinionated and generally obnoxious domain lawyers one usually runs into.

  9. BrianWick says

    Yes John –
    I could not agree with you more 🙂

    According to BBB.org – they seem to think he has closed his practice