Buontalenti.com: HugeDomains sold domain, buyer got UDRP

Posted by DomainGang on April 30, 2024, at 12:00 pm

Buontalenti.com is a domain registered in 2012 which was sold in 2022 by HugeDomains. The amount is unknown but the buyer appears to be a company in Qatar looking to establish a franchise brand of Badiani gelato before the World Cup in 2022. Badiani Ltd, a gelato company based in the UK claims that it […]

Filed under Domain Law · Tagged with Buontalenti, Buontalenti.com, Domains, HugeDomains, UDRP, WIPO, deny transfer

“The Cam Dude” won the UDRP filed against the domain TheCamDude.com

Posted by DomainGang on April 29, 2024, at 1:45 pm

Mav Media LLC filed a UDRP to get the domain TheCamDude.com from its registrant, who operates a resource about adult cam sites. Despite having achieved a recent victory against the domain CamDude.com, the Complainant lost this case, as the Respondent responded and represented themselves. They are listed simply by their initials, “F.A” in this UDRP. […]

Filed under Domain Law · Tagged with Camdude.com, Domain, Domains, The Cam Dude, TheCamDude.com, UDRP, WIPO

Motherhood.ai UDRP: Dot .AI associated with Artificial Intelligence, says Panelist

Posted by DomainGang on April 29, 2024, at 10:15 am

The WIPO panelist who decided on the UDRP for Motherhood.ai mentioned the obvious: Dot .ai domains are associated with Artificial Intelligence and in this case, as the domain is for sale, it did not target the Complainant’s MOTHERHOOD mark. The Complainant operates from Motherhood.com and its predecessors have supplied maternity apparel under the marks MOTHERHOOD […]

Filed under Domain Law · Tagged with .AI domains, AI, Domains, Motherhood, Motherhood.ai, UDRP, WIPO, brands, trademarks

And just like that, FoodClub.com (1998) is lost in a UDRP

Posted by DomainGang on April 27, 2024, at 10:59 am

The old (1998) registration of the domain FoodClub.com did not matter when Topco Holdings, Inc filed a UDRP. Its FOOD CLUB trademark came into play, registered in 1957 in the US for services that began as early as in 1945. One has to wonder what took the Complainant this long—26 years—to file a UDRP. In […]

Filed under Domain Law · Tagged with Domains, FOOD CLUB, FoodClub.com, Forum, NAF, UDRP, grant transfer

Apsen.com UDRP: This 20+ year old domain will be transferred—Here’s why

Posted by DomainGang on April 26, 2024, at 11:10 am

Apsen.com is a domain registered in July 2003; more than 20 years later, a UDRP decision by a sole panelist will force its transfer to the Complainant. Apsen Farmaceutica S.A., Brazil, cited its Brazilian trademark for APSEN, registered in 1984 for various pharmaceutical products. Its domain Apsen.com.br was registered in 1998. Despite appearing to be […]

Filed under Domain Law · Tagged with Apsen.com, Domains, UDRP, WIPO, grant transfer, typosquatting

Camdude.com: Investor’s sale got UDRP’ed

Posted by DomainGang on April 25, 2024, at 12:30 pm

Camdude.com, a domain name that once belonged to an expert domain investor, was apparently sold in 2020. Although the domain appears generic and was registered in 2004, it ended up being involved in a UDRP filed by Mav Media LLC, an adult content provider that operates from the plural and holds a registered trademark for […]

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Coinflex.com UDRP: One important thing about the domain arbitration process

Posted by DomainGang on April 24, 2024, at 11:44 am

The domain name Coinflex.com became the apple of discord of two Hong Kong based entities. The matter reached the WIPO panel that examined the case. Soon, it became evident that the Byzantine complexity of the matter could not resolved by the panel. Said the sole panelist: In this instance, the Panel finds it unnecessary to […]

Filed under Domain Law · Tagged with Coinflex, Coinflex.com, Domains, WIPO, domain arbitration

Trimble.ai UDRP: We are not domainers, or cybersquatters

Posted by DomainGang on April 23, 2024, at 9:34 am

The Respondent to a UDRP about the domain Trimble.ai used novel language to describe their use of the domain. “We are not domainers or cybersquatters,” said the Respondent, in response to Trimble Inc. that filed the UDRP. The three member panel was prepared to believe them, despite their listing of the domain at Sedo with […]

Filed under Domain Law · Tagged with Domains, Forum, NAF, Trimble.ai, UDRP, deny transfer, split decision

FlyCRW.com UDRP ends with a Reverse Domain Name Hijacking finding

Posted by DomainGang on April 22, 2024, at 9:20 am

The Central West Virginia Regional Airport Authority filed a UDRP to usurp the domain FlyCRW.com from its registrant; in the filing, they claimed that the FLYCRW mark is senior to the domain name. This allegation was false, as the Forum (NAF) panelist noted. In fact, the domain was registered in 2019, two years before the […]

Filed under Domain Law · Tagged with Domains, Fly CRW, FlyCRW, FlyCRW.com, RDNH, Reverse Domain Name Highjacking, domais

JCTAttachments.com UDRP: Panelist sides with Complainant but drops the ball

Posted by DomainGang on April 19, 2024, at 11:49 am

The WIPO panelist presiding over the JCTAtattachments.com UDRP pointed out that the web site hosted on the domain mimics the Complainant’s; that the purpose of the disputed domain’s existence is to confuse the consumers and pass off as the Complainant. Given the degree of similarity between the Respondent’s logo and the Complainant’s mark, and the […]

Filed under Domain Law · Tagged with Domains, JCTAttachments.com, UDRP, WIPO, deny transfer

Because.com: British company failed to get generic domain because …

Posted by DomainGang on April 18, 2024, at 12:00 pm

OEE Ltd, United Kingdom, believed they were entitled to the aged domain Because.com, because they owned the domain in the past. Also, because they didn’t renew the domain, it was auctioned off and the Respondent acquired it. The Respondent gets to keep the domain, because they acquired it in the same way that the Complainant […]

Filed under Domain Law · Tagged with Because.com, Domains, John Berryhill, UDRP, WIPO, deny transfer

Lifeware.com: UDRP ends with Reverse Domain Name Hijacking finding

Posted by DomainGang on April 18, 2024, at 11:00 am

The UDRP filed against the domain name Lifeware.com has ended with the domain transfer’s refusal by the WIPO panel. Furthermore, the sole panelist at the WIPO found that the Complainant engaged in Reverse Domain Name Hijacking. Lifeware SA, Switzerland, failed to prove that it has prior rights to the mark as the domain was registered […]

Filed under Domain Law · Tagged with Lifeware, Lifeware.com, RDNH, UDRP, deny transfer, reverse domain name hijacking