I have had enough of these bullies. I think it is time we start suing people that threaten to steal our domain names. This is plain extortion: “you sell for $500 or I take your …
Read More »Did A DomainNameSales.com Broker Cause A Domain To Be Lost In UDRP?
The domain name POG.co, owned by someone from China, was lost in a UDRP complaint that was filed by the owner of POG.com,Web Entertainment Limited. The case is rather interesting from many aspects so let’s …
Read More »Domain Name Cybersquatting Cases Up 4.6 % in 2015, Driven by New gTLDs
Cybersquatting disputes relating to new gTLDs accounted for 10.5% of WIPO’s UDRP caseload in 2015, which covered a total of 4,364 domain names. Among these names, .XYZ, .CLUB and .EMAIL were the most common new …
Read More »Camilla.com UDRP Panelist Christopher Gibson Has Also Ordered The Transfer Of CafeInternet.com
Panelist Christopher S. Gibson that was one of the 3-member panel in the controversial Camilla.com WIPO case was also part of some other questionable decisions in the past. I don’t think that anyone thinks this …
Read More »UDRP Complaint For The Domain Name Toyotomi.com Denied (RDNH missed only by a slim margin)
Victory! We just won the complaint for the domain name Toyotomi.com. The complaint was denied by a three member panel at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Complainant didn’t submit all evidence to the Panel, …
Read More »UDRP Panelist: “Panels Don’t Look Kindly Upon Re-filed Complaints That Blame UDRP Panels For Their Own Ineptitude”
The Hon. Neil Brown QC, a very well known UDRP panelist, wrote an article on his personal blog about “Re-Filing of a UDRP Complaint”. He is commenting on a recent decision: Reliance Telecom Limited v …
Read More »2,634 UDRPs Filed With WIPO In 2014 – Philip Morris Filed 81 Cases (+Infographic)
Since the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center administered the first Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) case in 1999, total WIPO case filings have passed the 30,000 mark, encompassing over 58,000 domain names. In …
Read More »Meet The Attorney That Represents Attorneys In UDRPs
Website attorney Steven Rinehart recently won several new UDRP domain name disputes involving common law trademarks. Rinehart issued a press release about successfully establishing common law trademarks rights for two attorneys who were the target …
Read More »UDRP complaint filed for 18 year old domain MyMachine.com
A UDRP complaint was filed for the domain name MyMachine.com at the National Arbitration Forum. The domain name was registered in 1996 and according to domaintools.com whois history the current owner has owned it since …
Read More »UDRP complaint for creativ.com denied despite default – Respondent did not reply to purchase offers
The UDRP complaint for the domain name creativ.com was denied at the National Arbitration Forum by a 1-member panel. This was a clear Reverse Domain Name Hijacking case but the owner of the domain did …
Read More »Arab Center for Dispute Resolution (ACDR) Starts Accepting UDRP Complaints
Dr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, president of the Arab Intellectual Property Mediation and Arbitration Society (AIPMAS) launched the Arab Center for Dispute Resolution (ACDR) accredited by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) as a …
Read More »Pharmaceutical companies filing a lot of UDRP complaints
I was going through UDRP complaint fillings and noticed that a lot of pharmaceutical companies are quite active in filing complaints lately. There was always a company that was going stronger at one time or …
Read More »Apple is going after misspellings of Apple.com with UDRP
Apple is going after misspellings of its official website Apple.com using UDRP complaints. Apple, Inc filed 2 UDRP complaints for the domain names appke.com (k is next l in qwerty keyboards) and applw.com (w is …
Read More »First Ever UDRP Complaint Filed For a New gTLD Domain Name: Canyon.Bike
The first ever UDRP complaint for a New gTLD domain name was filed today, February 11th, at WIPO. The UDRP complaint with WIPO Case Number D2014-0206 was filed by Canyon Bicycles GmbH, a German bicycle …
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