Legal

UDRP complaint for grief.net and grief-recovery.com was dismissed at the National Arbitration Forum. The decision of the panel was not to proceed with the UDRP because of a pending litigation. The three member Panel said …

A three member Panel denied the UDRP complaint for the domain name Guarani.com that a Brazilian company filed at WIPO. The Panel denied the complaint because there was nothing indicating that the Respondent in the US …

Panel denied the UDRP complaint for the domain name MyCadillac.com that General Motors made at WIPO. The Panel denied the complaint because the domain was used offering PPC links to the “Cadillac” geographic term only …

Marchex owned domain PetExpress.com gets a Reverse Domain Name Hijacking ruling as John Berryhill gets this complaint dismissed at NAF. This must be the longest decision I have ever seen for the simple reason that …

Target had it’s UDRP complaint denied for the domain name TargetApplication.com. Panel said that a website with advertising links, can be a legitimate use, and that the presence of pay-per-click links on its site does …

Helion.com got a UDRP complaint at the National Arbitration Forum a month after it was sold at Snapnames for $9,445. The domain was caught by Snapnames on the 7th  of October 2012 and the auction …

This could have been a Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) case but it seems that John Berryhill didn’t ask for a RDNH finding. He might have thought that the two pending CTM applications that were …

The Czech Arbitration Court (CAC) and .eu registry EURid have been running a special fee reduction to make the .eu Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) process more affordable. The cost of a basic proceeding has been cut …

The National Arbitration Forum decision to transfer the domain FacebookEmail.com to Complainant came after more than 5 months since the Complaint was submitted by Facebook. The Complaint was submitted by Facebook on June 28, 2012 …

Sedo has a bug at it’s control panel. Specifically the bug is at domain management and the parking optimization section. It is not possible to make bulk changes in the domain layouts and bulk changes in …

Complainant filed for a UDRP for the domain gtms.com because Respondent didn’t reply to their interest of purchasing the domain name. The domain was registered 8 years before Complainant registered its “gtms” trademark. Complainant used …

I was browsing the 1&1 registrar website today (no I am not a customer) and found this useful advice to domain owners that did not intent to let their domains expire and their domains have …

I got a question a few days ago about why Domain Tools reports 1174 .info domain names with Registrant: “Afilias Ltd / Sunrise Pending Reallocation”. Actually there were 1228 domains in this state but a …

Respondent chose not to waste his time and money and didn’t reply to these proceedings. Complainant managed to prove the 2nd element (legitimate use) of the UDRP in favor of the Respondent by submitting screenshots …