Efzed Pty Ltd. of North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (“Efzed”), Simulate Pty Ltd. of North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (“Simulate”), and Mr. Frank Zimmermann of Ultimo, New South Wales, Australia (“Zimmerman”), were just all found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on the domain airlineonline.com. The domain is owned by AviaDesign Ky, Sami Puro of Vantaa, of Finland, and was … [Read more...]
Just Transferred Last Week – UDRP Filed on Kite.com Being Held By Escrow.com
A UDRP has been filed on the domain name Kite.com The registrant of the domain is currently Escrow.com under the email address of dnholding@escrow.com. While I have no details about Kite.com I can tell you that Escrow.com uses that email address when its holding a domain name that has been sold typically while payments are still … [Read more...]
Hip-Hop Artist Wiz Khalifa Files UDRP On TaylorGang.com, Registered in 2007; TM Filed 2014
Hip-Hop artist and rapper Wiz Khalifa whose real name is Cameron Thomaz, filed a UDRP again the owner of the domain name TaylorGang.com with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The domain name was first registered in August 2007 according to DomainTools.com but according to Screenshots.com there was a site on the domain going back to 2005. However again according to … [Read more...]
UDRP Panel Denies TractorSupply.com Bid To Get Rights To The Word “Traveller”
Tractor Supply Co. of Texas, which has a long history of UDRP wins on "Tractor Supply" domains just lost its attempt to grab the new gTLD domain traveller.tools The one member panel of Andrew D. S. Lothian didn't buy the argument that the tractor supply company also owned the exclusive rights to the generic term TRAVELLER. I think it's an important case because had the panel found that … [Read more...]
Worst UDRP Decision Of The Year? Panel Gives Away Domain Registered Before TM Was Filed
A one member UDRP panel has awarded a domain name purchased in 2010, TheLightBlubStore.com, to Lumen Inc. based off a trademark filed in 2011, after the owner wanted to "reselling it for an outrageous profit. Specifically, Respondent offered to sell the disputed domain name for $18,000.00." Hon. Carolyn Marks Johnson was the Panelist who found the Complainant had a common law trademark right … [Read more...]
UDRP Panel Awards The Domain Name AnnLanders.com To The Trademark Holder
The domain name AnnLanders.com was ordered transfer to the Margo Howard Primary Trust and Margo Howard from the domain owner Ann Landers Fans International, LTD For those not old enough to remember her, Ann Landers was person who wrote a syndicated newspaper column for 56 years The Complainant claims to own the ANN LANDERS trademark as assignee of the trademark registration with the USPTO … [Read more...]
Two Letter Domain Lost In UDRP “Bought As Part Of A $1M Domain Portfolio Purchase in 2014”
In an interesting UDRP decision today the domain holder Futurename of Paris said they purchased a 1,000 domain name portfolio for $1,000,000 in August 2014. Some of the domain names purchased according to Futurename have the following values: colis.com USD 7,600, though.com, USD 59,000, monnaie.fr – EUR 10,000, bons.com – USD 12,000, milkshake.net – USD 4,000. The domain at issue in the … [Read more...]