Italo brand: Rail rival’s domain strategy backfires in third UDRP clash

Posted by DomainGang on July 4, 2025, at 10:10 am

Italy’s high-speed rail operator Italo – Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori S.p.A. took aim at five domains incorporating its brand: italopass.com, italorail.com, italoticket.com, italotickets.com, and italotours.com. All were registered by a US-based travel executive behind ItaliaRail, a booking service for Italian train routes—primarily promoting Italo’s competitor, Trenitalia. The case marked the parties’ third UDRP dispute, with Italo […]

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PiersMorgan.com: UDRP decision ties celebrity’s domain to bad faith holding

Posted by DomainGang on July 2, 2025, at 5:20 pm

The domain name PiersMorgan.com was registered in 2005 and corresponded exactly to the name of UK television personality and journalist Piers Morgan. The domain, linked over the years to ad-heavy parking pages and third-party redirections, remained under the control of a registrant using the pseudonym “W NA” at a UK address. The Complainants, Piers Morgan […]

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CurePuck.com transferred after competitor registers domain following trade show

Posted by DomainGang on June 26, 2025, at 10:07 am

The domain CurePuck.com was registered just one day after Keirton Inc., a Canadian cannabis equipment manufacturer, publicly launched its CURE PUCK product at a December 2022 trade show. The product was already being promoted online and later secured a US trademark in April 2025. The Respondent who runs a competing US business under the brand […]

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MIT.mortgage: Doesn’t take a degree to stay away from famous acronyms

Posted by DomainGang on June 24, 2025, at 9:01 am

MIT.mortgage was challenged in a UDRP by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which owns longstanding trademark rights to “MIT” dating back to 1988. The domain’s registrant claimed it stood for “Mortgage Information Technologies” and that he used the domain in relation to that business. MIT argued the domain and its initial website mimicked the university’s […]

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Dexatel.com: UDRP uncovered activities of former CTO

Posted by DomainGang on May 29, 2025, at 12:00 pm

The domain name Dexatel.com became the subject of a UDRP, filed by telecom company Dexatel CJSC. Although the domain was originally registered in 2005, Dexatel acquired it in 2015 and integrated it into its core infrastructure. The conflict arose when the Respondent—the company’s former CTO—shortly before his termination in late 2023, changed the domain’s admin […]

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Photoshop-Online.com: Famous trademark owner won UDRP

Posted by DomainGang on May 23, 2025, at 10:39 am

Adobe dominates the suite of tools used by professionals to create images, video, and art. Photoshop is one of the most popular tools by Adobe. While some reference “photoshop” as an actionable verb and “photoshopped” to indicate the editing or alteration of images, the term is very much trademarked and not at risk of genericide. […]

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Car.cash: Domain lost via the UDRP process—Here’s why

Posted by DomainGang on May 2, 2025, at 10:39 am

Domain hacks connect the two parts to the left and right of the dot, forming a single word (or phrase.) The case involving the domain Car.cash utilizes the car keyword, seemingly generic on its own, which creates a new entity, CAR CASH, matching a trademark registered by Sonic Divisional Operations LLC. The company filed a […]

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Sketchy trademark claims lead to the loss of MikroSystems.com via the UDRP process

Posted by DomainGang on April 28, 2025, at 11:48 am

A UDRP complaint filed by RTX Corporation against the domain MikroSystems.com, a 2000 registration, used 2001 as a reference date for the MIKRO SYSTEMS mark. That trademark, however, was registered with the USPTO on March 4, 2025 as records show. Furthermore, the application was filed in 2023 with an intent-to-use (ITU) clause. Although the domain […]

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Kathy Byrd domains: Realtor’s personal brand won back via the UDRP process

Posted by DomainGang on April 24, 2025, at 9:50 am

Realtors take note: Your personal brand requires a domain name that should include your own name. In the case of Kathy Byrd, a realtor with the state of Alabama, her full name was registered by someone in her home state in the form of 3 domains: KathyByrd.com, KathyByrd.net, and KathyByrdRealty.com. This covered the full base […]

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Own the LiBBS.com: Chinese registrant uses DeepSeek in their UDRP defense—Did it work?

Posted by DomainGang on April 18, 2025, at 10:48 am

The domain Libbs.com existed in 2008 but dropped and was acquired via DropCatch for $765 dollars in 2022. Libbs.com was supposedly resold for $1,000 dollars this year, according to notes in the UDRP filed by Libbs Farmaceutica Ltda, a Brazilian company that claimed it has rights to the LIBBS mark going back to 1961. The […]

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GEOIP.com: Domain lost in UDRP after Complainant poisoned data

Posted by DomainGang on April 11, 2025, at 10:29 am

In a fun case of data-poisoning, MaxMind Inc. defended its registered GEOIP trademark and won the UDRP case it filed against the domain GEOIP.com. Registered in 2000, the disputed domain’s registration predates the claimed first use of the GEOIP mark by two years. However, Namebio data shows that it was sold in 2014 for the […]

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ASLA.com UDRP: A 1995 domain registration was lost—Here’s why

Posted by DomainGang on March 30, 2025, at 10:57 am

The domain ASLA.com was registered in 1995 and 30 years later it was lost in a UDRP filed by the American Society of Landscape Architects, Inc. that operates from ASLA.org. Archive.org copies of the web site show that since at least 2004, an organization called “American Seminar Leaders Association” made use of the domain. That […]

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