MontanaDakota.com: Dispute centered on historic utility brand
MDU Resources, a North Dakota-based utility founded in 1924, contested the registration of MontanaDakota.com by a Vietnamese registrant. The company operates under montana-dakota.com for its Montana-Dakota Utilities subsidiary, serving more than a million customers in the region. The panel noted that “Montana Dakota” had acquired unregistered trademark rights through decades of continuous use. The disputed […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.DirtyHarry.com UDRP: Warner Bros defended Harry Callahan’s legacy
Warner Bros. Entertainment went after the domain DirtyHarry.com, arguing that the domain was identical to its DIRTY HARRY film franchise mark and acquired in bad faith. The Respondent, a domain investor, said he bought it at auction in 2020 for use in a home-flipping venture, likening “Dirty Harry” to tackling “dirty” houses, and claimed the […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Regions.org UDRP takes away generic domain from Domainer
Regions Bank, a U.S. financial institution with trademark rights in REGIONS since 1995, pursued the domain Regions.org after discovering it was used in phishing emails impersonating the bank. The domain, registered in 2001 and held under privacy, displayed banking-related PPC links and a “for sale” notice, while also sending fake “security alert” messages to trick […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Trivago.au: UDRP leads to victory for brandable domain operator
Trivago N.V., operator of the global hotel comparison platform, filed a complaint over Trivago.au, registered in 2022 by an Australian individual who used it for a WordPress blog with criticism of Trivago and a site disclaimer, with an image background of a horse. The panel found the domain identical to Trivago’s longstanding TRIVAGO trademark, with […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Italo brand: Rail rival’s domain strategy backfires in third UDRP clash
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 […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.PiersMorgan.com: UDRP decision ties celebrity’s domain to bad faith holding
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 […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.CurePuck.com transferred after competitor registers domain following trade show
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 […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.MIT.mortgage: Doesn’t take a degree to stay away from famous acronyms
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 […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Dexatel.com: UDRP uncovered activities of former CTO
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 […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Photoshop-Online.com: Famous trademark owner won UDRP
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. […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Car.cash: Domain lost via the UDRP process—Here’s why
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 […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Sketchy trademark claims lead to the loss of MikroSystems.com via the UDRP process
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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