La Salle University won control of it's direct match .com domain name today LasalleUniversity.com in a one member UDRP ruling. The fact that La Salle, won control of this domain isn't the story. The story is it took La Salle over 13 years to even file the UDRP against a domain holder who was not only parking the domain name with results going to other educational links but even sold email … [Read more...]

Microsoft just won control over 13 domain names infringing on its Bing Trademark. Some of the domains like BingFrance.com, BingSpain.com and BingBrazil.com are easy to see why the company would want the domains. Some others like Bing119.com and BingFace.com are a bit stranger. One domain BingBaidu.com was a double threat infringing on the trademarks of two companies which I assume either … [Read more...]

Fortrend Group LlC of Port Orange, Florida, whose website is located at Theprive.com, lost its bid to grab the generic domain name Prive.com Unfortunately  the panel did not find Reverse Domain Name Hijacking and even failed to discuss the issue although the complainant only started in business in 2008, only received a  trademark in 2010 and the domain name was registered in 1996 and of course … [Read more...]

E. REMY MARTIN & C° of Cognac, France, just lost a UDRP on the domain name TheRemyMartin.com to a "Remy Martin" of Palm Desert, California who appears to have represented himself. The one member panel found that the domain holder did not register the domain in bad faith despite the fact that the domain was inactive  and was being held to develop a blog of restaurant … [Read more...]

Vendita Technology Group, LLC just lost its bid to grab the domain name Vendita.com The domain owner was represented by Ari Goldberger and Jason Schaeffer of ESQwire.com. Although the complainant had a trademark on the term Vendita the three member UDRP panel found the term was generic and would have found Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) if not for the citation of one case by the … [Read more...]

                      Quality Logo Products, Inc. has filed a UDRP against Get On The Web Limited of Great Britain on the 3 letter domain name QLP.com As you can see the domain name goes to a page where the domain is being offered for sale for $125,000 The site on QLP.com says: Get On The Web Limited … [Read more...]