Infiniti Retail A 100% owned subsidiary of the India conglomerate Tata filed a UDRP on the domain name Croma.com
According to Tata’s website “The Croma chain of stores offers, in different cities of India, a wide range of consumer electronics products across categories and brands. The stores are spread over 12,000 to 20,000 sq ft and have more than 6,000 products and 180 brands in eight categories: home entertainment, small appliances, white goods, computers, communication, music, imaging and gaming software.”
The domain name Croma.com has an original registration date of 1996 and is owned by Croma Web Services of Baltimore.
The owner of Croma.com knows about the UDRP and is none to happy about it as on its site right now this appears:
“Thank you for your support over the years. This web site is under construction and moving in a new direction.”
“It has come to my attention that a certain company is trying to steal my URL.”
“It amazes me that a certain large company thinks they can use unscrupulous tactics to claim a URL.”
“I have owned this URL and it’s intellectual property since 1996!”
“Info for and the emails from the unethical company will be posted shortly!”
Wow. Obvious RDNH or someone in India is not doing their homework. As for the term, “chroma”, itself, the word is a generic term that has to do with color, coloring, hue, saturation of colors, etc. The Vermont company has a far better claim to the name than any electronics chain, that’s for damned sure.
And as anyone in television will tell you (ask Ron Jackson if you don’t want to believe me) chroma-key is a normal process of filtering specific colors in a background so you can superimpose another image in the place of the color. Typically a blue screen or green screen is used, and then we see a big pretty map with weather stuff on it.
I sincerely hope the retail company gets burned on this one. They deserve it for being so stupid.
If they ever get it, there is a chance Google will file for typosquatting Chrome.com 😉
TATA is huge, (just go to their website and click on ‘Products and Services’ under the ‘Our Businesses’ menu), but this is just plain wrong. This should be a no-brainer, TATA should have no rights to the name at all. If they want it, they have the cash to try and buy it. Otherwise, tough luck for not getting it before Chroma did, in 1995. (Not ’96)
I think they’ve filed a UDRP against Croma.com, not Chroma.com
Well, that could make a difference if true, Samit. Article is a bit confusing, after bringing that to light.
TATA owns CromaRetail[dot]com… so yes, that makes more sense.
Ah yes, the owner of Croma[dot]com is even making comments about this on the website… so it looks like it’s not Chroma after all…
Still 17 year old domain and owner has a statement on his site about it
Sorry about the confusion
Still looks like a RDNH
Is UDRP being Used As A Vehicle Of Opportunist Cybersquatter’s –
Danny, Croma also means “female nerd” in portuguese. It can also be used as a negative, or not so positive, way of identifying someone.
In this case, TATA are a bunch of cromos!!!