If you think that Austrian Airlines sucks, you need to justify your sentiment by providing factual information – even if you’re squatting on the exact match dot com domain.
The owner of AustrianAirlines.com, apparently has a bone to pick with the national Austrian airline, that operates from Austrian.com and AUA.com.
The airline was founded in 1957 and holds several trademarks for “Austrian Airlines”; it proceeded with filing a UDRP at the WIPO, seeking to take control of the very domain it accidentally let expire last year:
“The Complainant claims to have been the holder of the Domain Name for more than 10 years, but, due to an employee’s mistake, the Domain Name registration was not renewed in time and the Domain Name was subsequently registered by the Respondent. After registration, the Complainant sent a demand letter to the Respondent to which it did not receive a response, the Complainant submits.”
Although “sucks” web sites can be justified as protected speech, this case appears to be different, despite the content currently available on AustrianAirlines.com.
This type of shenanigans don’t work well; on top of that, the Respondent did not respond to the UDRP. The panelist ordered the domain to be transferred to the Complainant, Austrian Airlines.
For the full text of this UDRP, click here.
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