Le Figaro: French giant’s UDPR for Figaro.Club was denied
Le Figaro is a French giant in the media industry; their newspaper has been publishing a daily edition under the historic name LE FIGARO in France since the 1800’s. Not only do they own a bunch of trademarks, but these marks are strong, established and famous outside of France. It was therefore logical that they […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.MySQL trademark prevails in yet another Yoyo Email Ltd. UDRP
Right on course for setting a new world record for being served with the most UDRP cases in a year, the British company Yoyo Email Ltd. lost yet another UDRP at the WIPO. The Complainant, MySQL AB, challenged the Respondent’s registration of the domain MySQL.email. The MySQL trademark has been registered since 2003 and it’s […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Lego Buddies: KickStarter project owner loses LEGO UDRP
A KickStarter project owner has just lost a UDRP over the domain LegoBuddies.com, after the toy maker took them to the WIPO over the use of the domain. Blessed Factory of Deland, Florida, used the domain to forward to the company’s KickStarter project, titled “Blessed Buddies“. According to the project, “Blessed Buddies is a cartoon […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Oreos: Who will catch the .com and potentially the UDRP?
As Mike Berkens noted, the domain Oreos.com has been in auction at DropCatch.com – an outfit of NameBright / Huge Domains. After other drop catching services failed to catch the former domain property of Kraft Foods, the current status of the auction which expires in less than a day, shows a top bid of only […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Photo.com UDRP denied transfer to Complainant
The domain name Photo.com was challenged in a UDRP, brought forth by Fotocom Société Anonyme of Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. Short version: The complaint was denied, although there was no finding of reverse domain name hijacking, as one would expect. Registered in 1998, Photo.com is an extremely generic domain name, and it’s absurd that there was a […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Disaster strikes as NamesCon® scrambles to redesign thousands of items
This could be potentially disastrous: NamesCon®, the biggest domain conference for the industry is mere days away from its January 11th reincarnation. And yet, its officials must now start over, potentially redesigning thousands of items emblazoned with the NamesCon® logo. So what’s the catch? “We applied for the trademark in early 2014, and now that […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Trademark applications for ‘Domain’ brands hint of upcoming services
Several new trademark applications for domain related services were filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office during the past three weeks. First, the application for ‘Raj Domains’ was filed on November 26th, for the following classes: “IC 035. US 100 101 102. G & S: Brand development in the field of Domain names; Advertising […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domainer attempts to register “Domain Auction” as trademark with the USPTO
A trademark application with the USPTO for the terms “Domain Auction” has been deemed as “merely descriptive“, thus denying the registration of the mark. The application was filed in July, after the domainer registered DomainAuction.XYZ as a sample of use in her application. According to the correspondence from the USPTO: “Registration is refused because the […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.“Domain King” is a registered trademark
For those who have been living under a rock, or in a coma for the past 15 years, the moniker “Domain King” is synonymous with domain investor, Rick Schwartz. In a recent article for The Washington Post, its author attributed the title “Domain King” to domain investor, Mike Mann, despite his response that this “title” […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Trademark violations plague newly launched .OOO gTLD
The party has begun among those adopting the new India-based gTLD, .OOO (triple Oh) which launched to much fanfare and some very hopeful expectations. With around 4,600 registrations so far according to nTLDStats, .OOO is attracting numerous trademark violations – something that wasn’t witnessed with other gTLDs, such as .XYZ, for example. Domains of famous […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.UDRP for TheAA.email adds to the Yoyo pile
Another day, another UDRP for Yoyo Email, Ltd. – a UK corporation that has had a record number of UDRP cases filed against it this year. The reason: registrations of corporate names, brands and trademarks in the dot .Email gTLD, a practice that Yoyo Email refers to as a “business model”, asserting that it has […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Your Neighborhood: Exclaimed words in a mark won’t land a successful UDRP, panelist says
A panelist at the WIPO has made a great observation, after deciding to deny a UDRP for the Complainant, despite a lack of response by the Respondent. In a case involving the domain name, YourNeighborhood.com, the Complainant brought forth his registered trademark as part of the UDRP particulars. Conveniently, however, he omitted the part involving […]
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