PepperMoney.com : Complainant’s salty UDRP was denied
An Australian company, claiming rights to the PEPPER mark, attempted to get the domain PepperMoney.com via the UDRP process. Pepper Group Limited of North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, holds a trademark for PEPPER. They applied for a trademark for PEPPER MONEY in 2015. The owners of the domain PepperMoney.com have an interesting story to […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Chinese Cybersquatter plays the “great firewall” card in massive Facebook UDRP
By violating a famous brand’s trademarks, one has to be extremely creative in defending their deed. In the case of a Chinese domain registrant who registered a bunch of Instagram domain typos, the argument was rather weak. Facebook and its daughter company, Instagram, filed a UDRP at the WIPO, for the following domains: facebookenespanol.com faecdook.com […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.ETH.com UDRP failed; domain stays with Registrant
The UDRP for the valuable three letter .com domain, ETH.com has been denied. The Complainant, ETH Zürich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich) of Zurich, Switzerland filed the UDRP in March, alleging trademarks over the acronym going back to 2004. The Respondent is a Brazilian company and part of a group known as Construtora Norberto Odebrecht (the […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Two letter .com domain KQ.com saved from UDRP
The UDRP against the two letter (LL) .com domain, KQ.com, has been denied. The UDRP was filed at the WIPO back in January by Kenya Airways, that uses “KQ” as its airline code per IATA. Registered in 1996, the domain KQ.com is owned by someone in China, according to DomainTools. Kenya Airways is using the […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.YouPorn.TV : Domain lost in UDRP on the premise of a Registrant change
If you acquire a domain in the secondary market, make sure it does not infringe on the marks of others. A famous mark in the adult entertainment industry, is YOUPORN. The matching .com is the 161st most visited web site on the Internet. According to a UDRP filed against the domain name YouPorn.TV, the domain […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Chooze.com : 15 year old domain saved from UDRP with a RDNH finding
Domain investors are increasingly facing challenges over their long-held domain assets. Quite often, companies entering the market “late” attempt to wrestle these domains away, claiming trademark (ab)use. In the case of Chooze.com, a domain registered in 2001, the Complainant was Degani Designs LLC. The Respondent had legal representation, as they should. According to the UDRP […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domain trademarks : It’s not always about the .COM
While researching domain-related trademarks, one has to keep in mind a very simple fact: the word “domain” has other meanings as well. Indeed, the primary definition of the word “domain” in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, is as follows: the land that a ruler or a government controls an area of knowledge or activity In other words, […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Rocketpay.com registrant : I’m not a psychic – Funny UDRP response!
The Registrant of the domain Rocketpay.com came up with this brand, registering it in 2002. A dozen years later, in 2014, a company filed for the registration of the trademark ROCKETPAY, which was granted in January 2016; subsequently they filed a UDRP at the WIPO. The Complainant, Rocketgate PR LLC, alleged the following: “Complainant raises […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Yoyo Email Ltd. : 7 more .Email domains were lost in UDRP
In the two years since the launch of the dot .Email gTLD, a British company, Yoyo Email Ltd. made news repeatedly. Citing a pending, yet non-disclosable to the public service, Yoyo Email Ltd. registered a few thousand .Email domains, many – if not most – of which matched corporate names, or trademarks of companies. In […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Uline.net UDRP : WIPO panelist saves Respondent’s domain in absentia
Sometimes, something odd happens at the WIPO that handles UDRP cases, and in the case of Uline.net, the Complainant failed to get the domain. Despite having a trademark for ULINE, the Complainant’s attempt at getting the Finnish registrant to surrender the .net was foiled. In a notable decision, the sole panelist stated that the Respondent’s […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.UDRP defense against Cedit.com : A typo of ‘Credit’ – Three member panel agrees!
If you plan to apply for a trademark, make sure it doesn’t sound like a typo of a commonly searched, generic term. A three member panel at the WIPO agreed that the domain Cedit.com does not infringe on the Complainant’s mark, CEDIT. According to ESQwire, the domainer-friendly law firm representing the Respondent: “The Respondent registered […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.EyeTube.com : 10 year old domain hit with UDRP by trademark holder
YouTube launched in February 2005, and became an overnight success, spawning numerous “tube” domain registrations. In December 2005, a Cayman Islands company registered the domain EyeTube.com. According to DomainTools, it appears to have maintained the domain since then, despite several WHOIS changes. Our research indicates that the domain EyeTube.com is the property of Frank Schilling’s […]
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