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insurance.pro Gets Hit With a UDRP

December 17, 2013 by Michael Berkens

I know 99% of you could give a crap about a .Pro domain name but in the legal world there isn’t any different between a .pro and a .com domain and insurance.pro, as about a  generic domain as you can get,just got hit with a UDRP.

The complainant is not listed but there is a trademark on the term “Insurance Pro”

Word Mark INSURANCE.PRO
Goods and Services IC 036. US 100 101 102. G & S: insurance agencies; insurance brokerage;insurance underwriting services for all types of insurance.

FIRST USE: 20020228. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 20030613

Mark Drawing Code (1) TYPED DRAWING
Serial Number 78111771
Filing Date February 28, 2002
Current Basis 1A
Original Filing Basis 1B
Published for Opposition October 1, 2002
Registration Number 2785018
Registration Date November 18, 2003
Owner (REGISTRANT) Copeland, Christopher Scott DBA Insurance.Pro

INDIVIDUAL UNITED STATES San Antonio TEXAS 78216

Type of Mark SERVICE MARK
Register PRINCIPAL
Affidavit Text SECT 8 (6-YR). SECTION 8(10-YR) 20131107.
Renewal 1ST RENEWAL 20131107
Live/Dead Indicator LIVE

The domain is being re-directed at the moment to Allprodomains.com which has a lot of great .pro domain names listed for sale or lease including:

BANKRUPTCY.PRO
DISABILITY.PRO
DISCRIMINATION.PRO
LAWFIRM.PRO
LITIGATION.PRO
PATENTS.PRO

All of which are again as generic as you can get.

We will be tracking this one.

 

 

 

 

Filed Under: UDRP

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.

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Comments

  1. johnuk says

    December 17, 2013 at 5:01 pm

    This surely raises some very large red flags when someone/company considers paying thousands for one of the new tlds . Who is going to risk paying large sums when they could lose it in a flash ?.

  2. Ryan Jenkins says

    December 17, 2013 at 5:16 pm

    the outcome of this will be very telling, udrp panel member has become a very profitable job. The laws are in place to provide them a nice stream of fees, seriously almost 2014, how can this still happen…

  3. Samit says

    December 17, 2013 at 5:21 pm

    From what I’ve seen most UDRP panelists will disregard the TLD and use the SLD to decide whether it matches the tm in question.

    Now it remains to be seen whether the opposite also holds true. This is a perfect case for a RDNH imo.

    And johnuk has rightly said that this might be the litmus test for new gTLDs – if the extension is included then it would be extremely worrying for new gTLDs – the URS only costs $250.

  4. Mark Hershiser says

    December 17, 2013 at 5:44 pm

    Samit,

    I am pretty sure I have seen some .TV’s taken in UDRP’s and the .TV was not disregarded, it was why.

  5. ::::: QuickFlipp ::::: says

    December 17, 2013 at 6:26 pm

    .pro is interesting but the best .pro names seem already registered, like com.pro (“I buy” in italian)

  6. Xavier Lemay-Castonguay says

    December 17, 2013 at 6:35 pm

    Why an Insurance Company have more right than another to acquire insurance.com?

    Dosen’t make sens. I will laugh to see a trade mark UDRP another trade mark holder lol…

    UDRP is a joke

  7. johnuk says

    December 17, 2013 at 7:05 pm

    Yes, a Dangerous Joke at that. The UDRP has become soooo corrupted over the years it is now nowhere near what it was supposed to be. You know what I would like to see, someone TM “ICANN” or “WIPO” for something like “jokes” and then UDRP them both !!


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