The domain name Harrier.com was registered in 1992, the pre-dawn of the commercial Internet.
It’s a generic dictionary word, and its current registrant listed it for sale on the Uniregistry Market.
Tata Motors of India, has filed a UDRP against the 26 year old domain, attempting to wrestle it away!
Yes, it’s incredible.
The reason: Tata Motors is launching a new car model, Tata Harrier, early in 2019. How would they present the case over a branded product trailing the domain’s registration by almost three decades, remains to be seen.
Tata Motors registered the domain TataHarrier.com in June of this year.
This UDRP sets a new record for the oldest domain challenged via the process, and we’ll be looking at it closely. None of the previous UDRP filings by Tata Motors involved a generic domain; all were related to “tata” products.
Hopefully the owners of Harrier.com will respond timely and via the use of a qualified domain attorney, that’d seek a finding of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking.
