One needs a B&D to drill down the Yoyo Email Ltd. business plan.
UDRP record holders, Yoyo Email Ltd., added another notch on their belt in late 2014.
The Complainant is The Black & Decker Corporation, filing a single UDRP for the domains BlackAndDecker.Email and Dewalt.Email, registered by Yoyo Email Ltd.
These are both trademarks and brand names recognized from as back as the 1940s and 1950s, and the Complainant pointed out just that.
Regardless, in its response, Yoyo Email Ltd. rehashed the same argument as before:
“Through its response, the Respondent contends that it registered both domain names in good faith. Though prior UDRP panels have held against the Respondent by virtue of the Respondent having included third-party trademarks in its “.email” domain names, those panels have engaged in little more than speculation and conjecture regarding the Respondent’s business model and its intention, and based their views on unsupported statements appearing in prior decisions.”
In other words, after several lost UDRP cases, Yoyo Email Ltd. continues to hint there is a business model behind the practice of registering trademarks, brands, product names and corporate names, but they just won’t reveal it to the public.
The sole panelist, Peter L. Michaelson, eager to go home and spend Christmas in sanity, declared the case on behalf of the Complainant.
For the full text of the UDRP decision on the domains BlackAndDecker.Email and Dewalt.Email, click here.
