Allstate.Claims UDRP : “Make a reasonable offer at current market prices”
The registrant of Allstate.Claims got slapped with a UDRP by the Allstate Insurance Company; in a cheeky response, the Respondent stated: “Based on this complaint, this Complainant would be filing a complaint if ANYONE owned 645 other domain extensions that pertain to the word “Allstate”, such as Allstate.Actor, Allstate.Academy, Allstate.Accountants, Allstate.Ads, Allstate.Africa, Allstate.Apartments, Allstate.Architect, Allstate.Art, […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.StayFree .XYZ : Edgewell spent thousands of dollars to get $299 domain
The world of corporate logic operates on its own distinct plane, and Edgewell, owners of popular brands for the personal hygiene market, seems to follow that paradigm. One of the brands by Edgewell is Stayfree, a series of female hygiene products: “STAYFREE pads have a long heritage of being an innovator in the sanitary protection […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domain names “On Fleek” – Trademark situation?
Kayla Newman alleges she came up with the phrase “On Fleek” in 2014; the teenager shared the phrase in a 7 second video on Vine. Apparently, that phrase went viral, and still continues to be used in songs, merchandise and anything that targets millennials. Kayla Newman, also known as Peaches Monroee, now wants her chance to […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Marlboro + Marijuana domain = UDRP
Marijuana domains attract many domain investors, and there is substantial evidence that mainstream tobacco companies will be 420-friendly in the future. Capitalizing on this, some “enterprising” fellow registered Marlborojuana.com, an obvious amalgam of Marlboro and marijuana. Unfortunately, such blatant trademark use is frowned upon, and the tobacco giant promptly slapped them with a UDRP against […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Cybersquatting, domain UDRPs at the WIPO and gTLDs in 2016
The trademark-friendly folks at the WIPO released data a few days ago, regarding the record number of UDRP cases examined in 2016. That report, assesses data presenting the following picture: Trademark owners filed “an all-time record” 3,036 UDRP cases with the WIPO, a 10% increase over 2015. Top TLD was .COM, involving 3,135 domain names […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.New trademark application targets GEODOMAIN domain brand
A new trademark application at the USPTO for GEODOMAIN seems to introduce an alternate function for this generic keyword. Long after domain investors started using the geo-domain reference for city, town and other landmark domains as a shorthand version of “geographic domain,” an application filed on March 15th seeks to use the word for the […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domainers seek to revive lawsuit against Google, claiming term is generic
Two men who registered hundreds of domains containing the “Google” keyword, asked the Ninth Circuit to revive their case that was dismissed at an earlier stage. The argument is that “Google” is so commonly used, that it has become a generic term, meaning “to search the Internet.” They are seeking to render the Google trademark […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Zions Bank lost UDRP brought against the domain ZionVPN.com
Banking giant, Zions Bank, has won 27 UDRP filings against infringing domains; it lost one against the domain ZionVPN.com. The Respondent in this UDRP at the WIPO, is a “John Mike” of Karachi, Pakistan – which might or might not be a pseudonym. The domain was registered in January, and apparently Zions Bank monitors new […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Chinese registrant wanted $30,000 dollars for BBB ccTLD
The Chinese registrant of BBB.cc sought to get $30,000 dollars from BBB Cycling, a Dutch company. The latter, filed a UDRP in order to get the domain: “The Complainant is a worldwide leader in selling high quality cycling products, with more than 1,500 products across more than 40 different product categories sold in 48 countries. […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.OrderYourOil.com UDRP : Yours and mine are two different things
A company using the mark ORDER MY OIL went after the domain OrderYourOil.com, claiming that the mere substitution of the words is infringing. Wes Madan / United Oil Heat, Inc., d/b/a OrderMyOil.com filed the UDRP at the National Arbitration forum. The company claims common law rights, in other words, there is no registered trademark. Ironically, […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.OpenTime.com UDRP : Afternic agreement on trademarks means nothing!
The panelist handling the UDRP against OpenTime.com, delivered a shocking decision, handing over the 17 year old domain to the Complainant. In this case brought at the WIPO, the Complainant is Connecting Open Time, LLC of Lewisville, Texas, that adopted and first started using the OPENTIME trademark in or about November 2014, when it launched […]
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