No love at the UDRP: First they lost the .net and now the .com!
In late July we posted how a UDRP brought against the domain name, OneLove.net, was denied. The OneLove.net owner demonstrated fair use of the domain since 1998, although it was not over the web but rather, email. It seems that the same Complainant went after the dot com as well, and they failed to grab […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Email use for a domain is a valid response to UDRP claims
A UDRP over at the National Arbitration Forum was turned down, for the domain name OneLove.net. There are a couple of reasons why the Respondent won the case, despite the existing trademark by the Complainant. Firstly, the domain’s registration of 1998 predates the trademark. But most importantly, the Respondent used the domain – but not […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Advance Auto Parts fails to win easy-peasy UDRP at NAF
Advance Auto Parts failed to win a UDRP against a typosquatter, because according to the single-member panel, it failed to demonstrate that it suffered a loss from the typodomains in question! Other points made by the National Arbitration Forum panelist include that tarnishing one’s trademark is not the business of a UDRP. The cherry on […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Storage giant Seagate slam-dunks UDRP against the .net holders
Just four days ago we unveiled how Seagate – the storage media giant – filed and won a UDRP for Seagate.org at the National Arbitration Forum. The decision was made on the virtual white flag of surrender that the Seagate.org registrant raised. Now Seagate took that advantage and went after the domain name Seagate.net. This […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Waving the White Flag of Surrender: UDRP for Seagate domain name
Seagate is a name and brand established for over thirty years, creating digital storage media. As such, they are expected to take their brand very seriously, when others attempt to dilute it. In the world of domain names, that means registering a secondary TLD. As Seagate owns the .com, the registrant of Seagate.org was hit […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Naughty domainers hit with .XXX UDRP
There have been 19 UDRP cases decided against registrants of .XXX domains, so far, according to the adult industry news site, XBiz. Thirteen of those were decided for the complainants, with an equal number of domains ordered returned. The list includes the following cases: 20th Century Fox filed a complaint with the National Arbitration Forum […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Don’t mess with the Texas government, y’all!
The Texas Department of Transportation is proud of the service it offers to the community of Texas. With a budget approaching that of a small Caribbean nation, the TXDOT employees are on the lookout for anyone abusing their mark. So they went after the domain txdot.net – registered two years ago, according to top WHOIS […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.CheapValium .us: A trojan horse case at the National Arbitration Forum
According to their web site, the National Arbitration Forum “is a world leader in dispute resolution.” Particularly: “The FORUM provides fair, affordable, and accessible civil justice to all through recruitment, selection and management of a highly experienced and distinguished panel of over 1,600 former judges and seasoned lawyers. Expert FORUM arbitrators and mediators apply reasonable […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.National Arbitration Forum releases stats for 2011
The National Arbitration Forum (FORUM), an international provider of dispute resolution services, today announced that a total of 2,082 cases were filed in its domain name dispute resolution program in 2011, up 18 percent from 2009 (1,759 cases) and down four percent from 2010 (2,177 cases). Since the FORUM’s first case in 1999, nearly 18,000 […]
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