The domain GossipGirl.com dropped in February of this year and went to a drop auction where it eventually sold for and even $6,000. Today a UDRP panel awarded the domain to the complainant Alloy Entertainment LLC the producer of the hit TV show GossipGirl.com It would have been interesting to see what would have happened had the buyer put up a TMZ or Perez Hilton type of Gossip site but … [Read more...]
Generic IDN Gets Hit With A UDRP: Cabañas.com
With over 44,000,000 reference in Google the term cabañas.com seems pretty generic. Yet A URDP has been filed over the IDN by Marco Rafael Sanfilippo. I found that the complainant owns the domain name cabanias.com and the ownership of that domain could be the basis for the complaint. Domain name: cabanias.com Registrant Contact: Marco Rafael Sanfilippo If you check out Mr. … [Read more...]
Berryhill Beats Back UDRP On The Dictionary Word Masai.com
A three member UDRP panel had held in favor of the domain holder on the domain name Masai.com which was represented by John Berryhill. The complaint was brought by Masai Clothing Company of Copenhagen, Denmark which holds several community trademarks from "several European countries" on the term Masai. Masai is also a dictionary word for the name of an African Tribe. Here are the … [Read more...]
AriGoldberger Beats Back UDRP on Stage.com, Despite TM, Being Parked & Being Offered For Sale
AriGoldberger just successfully defended a UDRP on the domain name Stage.com, from a complaint brought by Specialty Retailers, Inc. which owned a trademark on the term "Stage", despite the fact that the domain name was parked and that the domain holder offered to sell the domain to the Complainant for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Here are the relevant facts and finding by the TWO member … [Read more...]
Wow Now The UDRP Thing Is Officially Crazy As A Complaint Is Filed Against Vanity.com A Fully Developed Site
A complaint was just filed with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on the domain name Vanity.com. Beyond the fact that an undisclosed complainant is trying to take away a dictionary word domain, the even more shocking part is that the domain name is not parked, not inactive but a fully developed site owned by a company named Vanity.com, Inc. The site has a members area and … [Read more...]
StocktonGolf.com Lost In A UDRP Based Off A Common Law Trademark To Golfer Dave Stockton
A one member UDRP panel has just awarded a pretty generic domain name StocktonGolf.com to StocktonEnterprises, Inc. a company owned and operated by professional golfer, Dave Stockton, a 10-time PGA Tour winner and a 14-time Champions Tour winner. The panel rejected that the domain represented the city of Stockton and terms related to Golf. The panel found that the "“Stockton” name is, and … [Read more...]
On The Same Week of Its IPO, Facebook Files a UDRP To Gain Control Of Facebook.info
Facebook, Inc. has just filed a UDRP with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to gain control of the domain name Facebook.info The domain Facebook.info was 1st registered in 2004. The domain is not parked, but rather has a choice of taking you to its Twitter account or to something its calls Forum.Facebook.info Many of the posts on the "forum" have such titles as "Copy … [Read more...]