HudsonFurniture.com: Second UDRP in 8 years flips the coin on the #domain

Posted by DomainGang on December 14, 2021, at 12:03 pm

Hudson’s Furniture Showroom, Inc. won the UDRP for the domain HudsonFurniture.com in 2013, usurping it from its previous owner who had acquired it in 2005 for $2,150 dollars. In that UDRP, the Respondent did not respond and the domain was transferred to the Complainant. Fast forward to 2021, Hudson’s Furniture Showroom, Inc. filed a UDRP […]

Filed under Domain Law · Tagged with Domainers, Domains, Hudson's Furniture, HudsonFurniture.com, NAF, UDRP, deny transfer, trademarks

Twinkl.se: Six month long parked page doesn’t indicate bad faith use

Posted by DomainGang on December 2, 2021, at 10:20 am

The UDRP filed against the Swedish domain Twinkl.se did not have a good outcome for the Complainant, Twinkl Ltd ofUnited Kingdom. The latter obtained a European Union trademark in 2021, trailing the disputed domain’s registration by a whole 14 years. In the response, the Respondent said: The Domain Holder registered the disputed domain name in […]

Filed under Domain Law · Tagged with Domainers, Domains, TWINKL, Twinkl.se, UDRP, WIPO, deny transfer

AzulMusic.com: #Domain owner didn’t bend to trademark holder—and here’s why

Posted by DomainGang on November 4, 2021, at 1:31 pm

The registrant of the domain AzulMusic.com didn’t bend to the first C&D they received from Azul Music Multimídia of Brazil. The company operates from AzulMusic.com.br, registered in 1998. The asking price of $2,599 dollars is definitely reasonable for this two word .com registered in 2017. After filing a UDRP with the WIPO and despite claims […]

Filed under Domain Law · Tagged with Azul Music, AzulMusic.com, Domainers, Domains, UDRP, WIPO, deny transfer

Observe.com: Aged #domain escapes the claws of the UDRP

Posted by DomainGang on October 26, 2021, at 1:09 pm

Observe, Inc., filed a UDRP to usurp the aged domain Observe.com. Registered in 2006, the domain became the target of the Complainant once they filed for the registration of a trademark for OBSERVE in early 2021. To this date, no such registration has occurred. The Complainant operates from the domain observeinc.com and via the UDRP […]

Filed under Domain Law · Tagged with Observe.com, UDRP, WIPO, deny transfer

ATVtracksystems.com: Streak of WIPO victories for John Berryhill continues

Posted by DomainGang on October 15, 2021, at 2:22 pm

IP attorney, John Berryhill, continued his recent streak of UDRP victories at the WIPO. Representing the Respondent for the UDRP filed against the domain ATVtracksystems.com, Mr. Berryhill pointed out that the Complainant didn’t have “clean hands” when they registered domains incorporating various ATV brands and pointed them to their web site; yet, they raise an […]

Filed under Domain Law · Tagged with ATVtracksystems.com, Domainers, Domains, John Berryhill, UDRP, WIPO, deny transfer

ClickBetter.com: UDRP won for Respondent but one WIPO panelist disagreed

Posted by DomainGang on October 5, 2021, at 6:35 pm

The UDRP against the domains ClickBetter.com and ClickBetter.info was filed by a former partner of the Respondent. The Respondent, ClickBetter LTD, Canada, was represented by ESQwire.com, an advertiser on DomainGang. The case was presented as too complex to be addressed via the UDRP channel and that’s what the Respondent emphasized: Despite the Complainant’s choice to […]

Filed under Domain Law · Tagged with ClickBetter.com, ClickBetter.info, Domains, ESQwire, ESQwire.com, UDRP, WIPO, deny transfer

GrupoRochas.com: UDRP fails due to family name usage

Posted by DomainGang on October 4, 2021, at 2:47 pm

The UDRP filed against the domain GrupoRochas.com fell flat after the Respondents pointed out the obvious: they are a group using the last (family) name of Rochas. Complainant is Interparfums SA, France, that has produced the ROCHAS perfume for years but this case clearly stank. According to the Response: The Respondent asserts to have rights […]

Filed under Domain Law · Tagged with Domainers, Domains, GrupoRochas.com, UDRP, WIPO, deny transfer

The Mortgage Link: Common law mark not enough to win #UDRP

Posted by DomainGang on September 28, 2021, at 10:11 am

The Mortgage Link is a real estate company that asserts common law trademark rights in THE MORTGAGE LINK mark, based upon use of that mark since 2002. They operate from the domain TheMtgLink.com. They filed a UDRP against the domain TheMortageLink.com that was registered in 2009, seven years after the alleged first use of their […]

Filed under Domain Law · Tagged with Domains, NAF, The Mortgage Link, TheMortgageLink.com, UDRP, deny transfer

The Hype Company lost #UDRP it filed against #domain name investor

Posted by DomainGang on September 23, 2021, at 10:13 am

Spain-based The Hype Company filed a UDRP to usurp the domain TheHypeCompany.com held by a domain name investor. In doing so, it presented a variety of registered country trademarks for HYPE THE HYPE COMPANY. These marks were applied for or registered between late 2017 and mid 2021. The Complainant registered TheHypeCompany.es on June 26, 2017. […]

Filed under Domain Law · Tagged with Domainers, Domains, HYPE THE HYPE COMPANY, MegaDomains, TheHypeCompany.com, UDRP, WIPO, deny transfer

Hotelbnb.com: French hotelier B&B Hotels lost the UDRP

Posted by DomainGang on September 17, 2021, at 11:37 am

B&B Hotels, France, send its legal team across the pond to England, where the holder of the domain Hotelbnb.com is located. In the ensuing UDRP the Complainant cited several French and European marks, such as B&B HOTEL and B&B HOTELS and the inability to register the ampersand as part of a domain. Its assets include […]

Filed under Domain Law · Tagged with Hotelbnb.com, UDRP, WIPO, deny transfer

VitriVax.com: Date of first use decisive factor in #domain name’s #UDRP decision

Posted by DomainGang on September 13, 2021, at 10:40 am

A company that registered the VITRIVAX mark with the USPTO in 2021 attempted to usurp the matching domain, VitriVax.com, via the UDRP process. The complainant is VitriVax, Inc., a technology company specializing in storage and delivery of vaccines. The trademark was obtained citing as date of first use October 31, 2018. In its filing, the […]

Filed under Domain Law · Tagged with Domainers, Domains, UDRP, VitriVax, VitriVax.com, deny transfer, trademarks

Dewberry Engineers failed to usurp #domain from a person named Dewberry

Posted by DomainGang on September 3, 2021, at 10:29 am

If your last name is Dewberry, you should be able to own a domain with that keyword. Not so fast, said Dewberry Engineers Inc., an engineering, architecture, real estate services, and emergency management firm, operating from dewberry.com. They filed a UDRP against the domain dewberrydesigns.com at the WIPO. The Respondent is Elizabeth Dewberry, founder of […]

Filed under Domain Law · Tagged with Elizabeth Dewberry, UDRP, WIPO, deny transfer, dewberrydesigns.com

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