A Dutch company has filed a UDRP against the domain DiamondPoint.com; its owner, SyncPoint, Inc., is no stranger to such aggressive behavior and is responding in kind.
The Complainant, Jakob Ruben van Gelder, operates from the domain DiamondPoint.nl since 1999 all while the disputed domain was registered by the Respondent in 2001. At the time, the Complainant’s fame appears to have been localized in The Netherlands.
In 2015, the Complainant appears to have acquired the domain DiamondPoint.net from BuyDomains, 14 years after the .com’s registration by the Respondent.
The Complainant registered figurative marks for DIAMOND POINT in the Benelux countries and the European Union in 2016. Several other DIAMOND POINT trademarks at the USPTO appear to be unrelated to the Complainant.
David Lahoti, founder of SyncPoint, Inc., has set up a landing page at DiamondPoint.com referencing the ongoing UDRP. The case’s details are presented with a footer that reads:
“This document is prepared in response to the UDRP claim by DiamondPoint.net. The complainant’s actions are clearly an attempt at reverse domain name hijacking, as the facts show that we have held legitimate rights to DiamondPoint.com since 2001, long before their interest in the domain.”
We will be keeping an eye on this UDRP as it gets closer to decision time at the WIPO.
