Gaijin UDRP winner: “Ended with a whimper, not with a bang”

A while ago we broke the news of a successful UDRP defense of the aged domain, Gaijin.com, against predatory giant Gaijin Entertainment. Not only did the domain remain in the hands of its long term registrant and owner, Brandon Harris, but the case was withdrawn at the WIPO. Brandon Harris is a senior designer for […]

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Brandon against the Russian Goliath: Gaijin.com UDRP terminated

In a case of “David against Goliath” that we covered a few months ago, the owner of the domain name Gaijin.com surely has reasons to celebrate. Gaijin Entertainment Corporation, a producer of games software based in Russia, attempted to wrestle the domain name, Gaijin.com, from Brandon Harris, who hand-registered it in 1995. Harris openly crossed […]

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Gaijin Entertainment: Reverse Domain Name Hijacking candidate for Gaijin.com

Five months ago, we announced that Gaijin Entertainment sent a C&D letter to Brandon Harris, owner of Gaijin.com, which he hand-registered in 1995. Gaijin Entertainment, specializing in gaming software, has now filed a UDRP for the domain name – for a trademark it acquired 16 years after Gaijin.com was registered! The claims brought forth by […]

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Generic domain Gaijin.com served with a C&D notice by Russian games developer

When I first visited Gaijin.com we shared web hosting, in the late 90’s. It all started by being curious about what other web sites were co-hosted on the same server, around 1997 or 1998. The domain and web site is the personal sandbox of Brandon Harris, whose esoteric use of the Japanese term for “non-Japanese“, […]

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