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Eurisko.com is a domain registered in 1994, making it 25 years old. A trademark registered in 2020 led to a UDRP filed by Eurisko Mobility LLC, Lebanon. Eurisko means “I find” in ancient Greek. According to the UDRP: The Complainant is the ...
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July 10, 2020 DomainGang
Domain Law, eurisko, eurisko.com
When your last name is Beckman and you’re Swedish, you’re probably entitled to using the domain Beckman.se. That’s what the registrant of the domain Beckman.se believed, until a company filed a UDRP based on the BECKMAN trademark. The...
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July 7, 2020 DomainGang
Arcanite, BECKMAN, Beckman.se, Domain Law, Swedish domains
AGFA is a famous brand and trademark, and the company provides goods and services involving photography, medical imaging and medical software globally. A Chinese individual registered the following .ICU domains, presumably paying less than $2 each: agf...
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July 6, 2020 DomainGang
AGFA, Domain Law, dot .ICU
The UDRP filed against the domain name Trueworths.com referred to domainers as “high-volume registrants” – and asserted that they special duties to avoid trademark infringement. The Complainant, is Truworths Ltd, South Africa, and has...
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July 3, 2020 DomainGang
Domain Law, trueworths.com, TRUWORTHS
The US Supreme Court today affirmed that the domain name “booking.com” can be registered as a trademark (BOOKING.COM) instead of seen as merely a generic domain name. The decision should be well-perceived by many domain name investors that ...
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June 30, 2020 DomainGang
booking, booking.com, Domain Law, generic domains, US Supreme Court
State Farm filed a UDRP against the domain TheStateFarmBowl.com in March, which they lost. Three months later, they filed again, and once again they lost the case. The reason: no new information was provided, other than some private exchanges with the ...
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June 30, 2020 DomainGang
Domain Law, no material change, State Farm, TheStateFarmBowl.com
Filing a UDRP against the domain AccessSpa.com did not end well for the registrant of the ACCESS SPA trademark. The mark was registered in January 2020, while the domain exists since 2009. Just because the registrant wants to sell it, doesn’t mea...
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June 29, 2020 DomainGang
AccessSpa.com, Domain Law, RDNH, Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
The registrant of the domain Soccer10.com has scored a big victory, defeating a South African betting company that filed a UDRP. The Complainant is Phumelela Gaming & Leisure Limited, South Africa, and they have a trademark for SOCCER 10. In the Co...
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June 25, 2020 DomainGang
Domain Law, Soccer 10, Soccer10.com
Yara International ASA, Norway, manufactures and supplies fertilizer. With 16,000 employees and operations in more than 60 countries, it reported revenues of approximately $12.9 billion in 2019. Operating from Yara.com, the company filed a UDRP against...
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June 24, 2020 DomainGang
Domain Law, fertilizer, Jordan, Yara fertilizer, Yara.com, Yarafert.com
A Chinese OEM parts manufacturer operating from the domain EiPSON.com since 2016, had no intention to pass off as “EPSON” according to his statement. Hilariously attempting to cover up the similarities in the logo, along with the fact that ...
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June 23, 2020 DomainGang
Domain Law, EiPSON.com, EPSON