Brindeed.com #UDRP unveils common practice of subdomain squatting

Indeed, Inc. is the world’s largest job site, with over 200 million unique visitors every month from over 60 different countries. The UDRP filed against the domain name Brindeed.com was triggered by a common practice, that of subdomain squatting. Indeed uses subdomains for its regional web sites and in the case of this UDRP filing […]

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Cyrgo.com: WIPO panelist sides with Complainant; 15 year old #domain is lost

The WIPO panelist in a UDRP filed against the aged (2006) domain name Cyrgo.com has delivered a decision favoring the Complainant. Cyrgo S.A.S., Colombia, filed the UDRP to reclaim the domain that WHOIS records show it owned in 2001. The Colombian company registered the domain in 1999 but it apparently lapsed in 2006. Since then, […]

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MavenLawfirm.com: Two law firms go at it over Maven brand

Two law firms, one in Florida and another in California, engaged in a UDRP over the domain MavenLawFirm.com. The Complainant, MAVEN IP , PA, is a law firm that provides legal services regarding intellectual property and is located in Florida. They hold trademark rights to the mark MAVEN. On the other hand, the Respondent is […]

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FamousBirthdays.io: No, “famous birthdays” is not a generic phrase

So you thought “famous birthdays” is a generic phrase you can monetize via a domain such as FamousBirthdays.io? Think again. The mark FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS has been registered with the USPTO since 2012 and in the UDRP case of Famous Birthdays LLC vs. Rashed Hasan Akash it led to the Respondent’s loss. The Respondent ripped content […]

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Pomhub.com: 14 years of PPC earnings ended with a #UDRP

Typo-domains can be huge money makers when parked with PPC providers. In the case of Pomhub.com, the domain was registered in 2007 and was parked with adult content and PPC ads, originally at Sedo. The visual confusion between Pomhub and Pornhub, the adult content monolith, led its owners, Licensing IP International S.à.r.l., to file a […]

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Cat-tracks.com: Don’t use a brand’s fame to sell competitive products!

The domain Cat-tracks.com faced a UDRP filed by Caterpillar Inc. of CAT.com fame. The Complainant pointed out that the domain was used to promote and sell competitive products, all while displaying the CAT brand and mark. Indeed, as seen by the Respondent’s Facebook page, the majority of items for sale are not manufactured by Caterpillar. […]

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FacebookCoin.com: Social media titan won’t pay $2,000 for this #domain name

Facebook declined an offer to pay up $2,000 dollars for FacebookCoin.com. So is there a “Facebook coin” in the works? Most likely not, but the domain name contains the world famous Facebook mark, which led to the social media titan filing a UDRP against it. The decision was swift: transfer the domain FacebookCoin.com to the […]

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DataWidget.com lost via the #UDRP process despite 15 year seniority to the trademark!

The domain DataWidget.com appears to be an aged, generic domain. Registered in 2005, it was offered for sale by its registrant but a company that registered the mark DATA WIDGET in 2020 is now taking it over via the UDRP process. Despite a gap of 15 years between the domain’s registration and that of the […]

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#IBM .onl : Registrant wanted $18 million dollars for infringing #domain name

From the blatant cybersquatting department: The registrant of IBM.onl sought $18,960,000 dollars for it. Listing an infringing domain for sale on Sedo didn’t sit well with IBM, a multi-billion dollar corporation with a world-famous mark. The ensuing UDRP resulted in transferring the domain to the Complainant: The Panel finds that the above-mentioned circumstances indicate that […]

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FacebookSell.com : “An ongoing project which I have invested for years”

From the hilarious responses to a UDRP department: FacebookSell.com was hit with a UDRP at the WIPO. The famous mark FACEBOOK is so strong that even savvy investor, Mike Mann, isn’t immune to it. And yet, the British Respondent in this UDRP had the cojones to respond thus: “I respectfully reject the allegation made by […]

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How Dominic Thiem, world class #tennis player, got his matching .com #domain name

When you’re a professional tennis player, such as Dominic Thiem, it’s important to own your matching .com domain name. Ranked 3rd in the world, Dominic Thiem didn’t register DominicThiem.com, however. The domain was registered by some speculator who referred to themselves as a “fan,” at a time that Dominic Thiem was a teenager. True fans […]

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Facebook template .com : Yes, you can lose your #domain 14 years later

If you hold onto a domain infringing on a famous trademark such as Facebook, you’re wasting your renewal fees. The registrant of FacebookTemplate.com, a domain registered way back in 2006 renewed it 13 times since then. Clearly, a waste of money, as Facebook Inc. filed a UDRP at the WIPO. Considering that on September 26, […]

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