Complainant with a Big Ass trademark failed to prove “Identical and/or Confusingly Similar” although Respondent defaulted. This seems to be a trend with clueless Complainants and their legal counsels. The domain name at issue was …
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Complaint for onelove.com denied at NAF
A couple of weeks back a complaint for onelove.net was denied at NAF as well. It was brought by the same company, Raising Cane’s USA, LLC. The Panel then found that Respondent’s use of the domain …
Read More »Greenpeace wins UDRP complaint by oil company at WIPO
The Complainant was Neste Oil Oyj of Finland. The Complainant is a Finnish oil refining and marketing company producing transportation fuels and petroleum products. Neste Oil Oyj is listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki. The Complainant …
Read More »Sedo is proactively selling DomCollect domain names
I got an email the other day from a Sedo account manager. She was offering me a list of 2 or 3 character domains. This seemed like normal brokering until I got to this part: If …
Read More »Complaint for digitalceramic.com denied at WIPO
The Complaint for the disputed domain name digitalceramic.com was filed with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center (the “Center”) on June 13, 2012. The Complainant was Digital Ceramic Systems Limited of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England and The Respondent …
Read More »Complaint for detur.com owned by Vertical Axis denied at WIPO
The Complaint was filed with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center (the “Center”) on April 30, 2012. There were 2 complainants in this complaint. Complainant1 is Detur International B.V. (“Complainant1”) of Amsterdam, Netherlands and Complainant2 …
Read More »Sedo offers domains for sale while trying to disguise an adult domain
Sedo offers a few premium names exclusively for sale. You see the domains when you log in to Sedo. Here are the domains with Sedo’s pitch next to them and with some related sales. Meetings.com …
Read More »Complainant fails to prove “Identical and/or Confusingly Similar” although Respondent defaults
A complaint was submitted to the National Arbitration Forum on June 4, 2012 for the domain name medasurant.com. Complainant was Assurant, Inc. from the United States and the Respondent which failed to submit a Response …
Read More »Email from GoDaddy: Anyone frustrated with GoDaddy’s new front of site changes
I just got an email from godaddy about the recent changes in their front site and their control panel: “First of all thank you so much for all of your input regarding the recent changes …
Read More »Bad Domain Business #2 (sending offers to auction)
Last week I wrote about a domainer that offered me a domain name, I made an offer that he accepted and then he asked for double the money. This week I have another example of …
Read More »GoDaddy is trying to sell me my own domain names
While I was browsing through my GoDaddy account I saw a yellow frame reading: Godaddy NameMatch Recommended Auctions I thought that GoDaddy is trying to sell me some domains. Nothing wrong with that. Then I …
Read More »Sir Tim Berners-Lee at the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics
Sir Tim Berners-Lee inventor of the World Wide Web was presented at the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics. He sat in front of a computer booting the world wide web digital revolution. He …
Read More »Complaint for onelove.net denied at NAF
A Complaint made by Raising Cane’s USA, LLC was denied at the National Arbitration Forum. The Complaint was about the domain name onelove.net and the Respondent was Eddie Nguyen. The Panel decided that the Complaint …
Read More »The UDRP rules do not apply to subdomain names
In a decision rendered by the National Arbitration Forum the Complaint for the domain names windoows.net and windooows.com was denied. The Complainant was NOT Microsoft as one might expect in a “windows” related Complaint. Complainant …
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