The registrant of the domain Gail.com, matching the female first name “Gail,” was hit with a UDRP in 2006. The domain was registered in 1996 as a present to the registrant’s wife.
The ensuing anguish caused by a Brazilian company asserting rights to the GAIL mark, led the registrant to create a landing page full of disclaimers.
All that, despite a win in that 2006 UDRP that ended with the WIPO panelist denying transfer of the domain Gail.com to the Complainant, Gail Guarulhos Indústria e Comércio Ltda.
Gail.com would also be classified as a very common typo of Gmail.com, just like that of Gamil.com.
Here’s, in part, what the disclaimer on Gail.com says:
Q: Interested in selling gail.com?
A: Sorry, no.Q: How did you manage to get gail.com?
A: My husband registered it as a birthday gift back in 1996.Q: How many times a day is this page visited?
A: In 2020 this page received a total of 5,950,012 hits, which is an average of 16,257 per day. Looking at just unique hits, we received a total of 1,295,284, for an average of 3,539 unique hits per day. Occasionally, we get Twitter-bombed and may get several tens of thousands of visitors a day. As an example, on July 21st 2020 we received 109,316 hits.Q: Are you interested in monetizing gail.com?
A: No, but thanks for asking.
For the full list, visit Gail.com knowing you are not going to Google’s Gmail. 😀
Story kudos: Nadia.
