Kio.com UDRP ends with Reverse Domain Name Hijacking decision
The UDRP filed against the domain name Kio.com ended with the Complainant’s loss, as the panel denied the domain’s transfer. On top of that, the three member WIPO panel delivered a finding of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking, directly blaming the Complainant’s counsel: […] in the view of the Panel, the Complainant knew or ought to […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.TheFutureHotels.com: UDRP victory for Greek hotelier
UK-based Future Inns UK Ltd attempted to get the domain TheFutureHotels.com from its Greek registrant, operator of a hotelier resource with offices in Athens and Santorini, Greece. The Complainant has been operating a chain of hotels in the UK since 2005, with three hotels in the chain, Future Inn Cardiff, Future Inn Plymouth, and Future […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.GXSBank.com: How is this UDRP not Reverse Domain Name Hijacking?
When a domain was registered years before a company claimed rights to a brand, any UDRP filing by that second party should be an automatic finding of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking. In the case of GXSBank.com, the domain was registered in 2015. The UDRP filed by a Singapore bank due to the marks GXS and […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.LawCloud.com: UDRP ends with a RDNH finding
A Belgian services provider of cloud services has lost a second UDRP in a week, this one with a finding of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking. After losing the UDRP for LawCloud.eu, Lawcloud B.V., Belgium, lost the UDRP it filed against LawCloud.com, a domain registered in 2006. In that UDRP, the Complainant did not disclose that […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Law.cloud registrant lost the UDRP for LawCloud.eu
A Belgian services provider of cloud services has lost the UDRP it filed against the registrant and operator of the domain LawCloud.eu that appears to resolve as a broken page. The domain was registered one year before the Complainant’s formation; the Complainant operates from the ultra premium gTLD domain Law.cloud. They have also registered the […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.The domain EchoPayments.com wasn’t lost via a UDRP—Here’s why
The domain name EchoPayments.com was challenged via the UDRP process at the Forum (NAF.) ECHO Health, Inc. attempted to get the domain based on their registration of the mark ECHO in 2014. There was one problem with the strategy of the Complainant: The domain was registered in 2011. Despite the Respondent’s lack of a response, […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Octa.eu UDRP: Domain predates Complainant’s trademark by 14 years
The domain name Octa.eu was registered in 2008, all while a company registered the OCTA mark considerably later, in 2022. Branding Links Management Ltd., China, and Octa Markets Cyprus, Ltd., Cyprus, respectively owner and licensee of the mark, filed a UDRP to usurp the domain. The Complaint was filed in French with a summary of […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Unicaf.com: Reverse Domain Name Hijacking decision—Here’s why
The domain Unicaf.com was hit with a UDRP and not as a Unicef typo, mind you. The domain is parked with PPC links and its Canadian registrant responded to the UDRP at the WIPO, noting that it was registered in 2011. Although Unicaf.com existed as early as in 2007, potentially as a Unicef typo, this […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.ImpossibleKick.com UDRP failed due to Complainant’s rushed filing
When you claim your mark has become distinctive but it hasn’t, filing a rushed UDRP won’t get you the domain name. Impossible Kicks Holding Company, Inc. filed a UDRP against the registrant of the domain name ImpossibleKick.com. The Respondent did not respond, but the sole panelist at the Forum (NAF) pointed out that the Complainant’s […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.OlefyTech.com: Failed UDRP is a reminder about outsourcing domain registrations
When you form a company, you—the company’s principal—better register the domain names and brands associated with it. A Finnish company outsourced the domains OlefyTech.com, Olefy.tech, and other social media registrations to an outside party that was commissioned to come onboard the company’s spinoff brand; once the relationship turned sour, they demanded the domains back, filing […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.LMG.net.au UDRP denied; it’s the Respondent’s initials, dummy!
Some Australian companies late to the domain game are using the UDRP process as the “Plan B” approach. In the case of the domain name LMG.net.au, the UDRP was filed by Liquor Marketing Group Ltd, claiming rights to the LMG mark in Australia. It seems that they could have known the acronym matched Leo Mark […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Why CitiusTech Healthcare Technology failed to get Citius-Tech.com via the UDRP process
CitiusTech Healthcare Technology is an Indian company using the CITIUSTECH brand and trademark. After failing to get the domain CitiesTech.com via the UDRP process, they failed in a UDRP filed against the operators of the domain Citius-Tech.com, which is owned and operated by an Indonesian company. Using a dash that separates the two words, one […]
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