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Registering a seemingly generic domain before a matching trademark was used or registered might be a safe road to domain investing. Banking colossus JPMorgan has applied for the registration of the mark IndexGPT, with an intent to use filing for the fo...
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May 26, 2023 DomainGang
Domain Law, IndexGPT, IndexGPT.com, JPMorgan
The operators of the domain name Wrenching.com have filed for the matching mark’s registration with the USPTO. A fresh application for WRENCHING.COM cites February 2023 as the date of first use of the mark in interstate commerce, for the followin...
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May 25, 2023 DomainGang
Domain Law, uspto, WRENCHING.COM
The domain Painless.com was registered in 1996, at the dawn of the commercial internet. Along came Benco Dental Supply Co., a medical supply company, with a registered mark for PAINLESS from 1997; they sought to get the domain via the UDRP process 27 y...
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May 24, 2023 DomainGang
deny transfer, Domain Law, Painless.com
Decathlon is a French manufacturer specializing in the conception and retailing of sporting and leisure goods. It generates more than 11 billion euro annually, with more than 105,000 employees worldwide. Its DECATHLON brand is a world-famous trademark....
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May 22, 2023 DomainGang
Decathlon, Decathlon France, decathlons, decathlons.org, Domain Law
Valhallan LLC, the Complainant, filed a complaint against Casey Strattan, the Respondent, regarding the domain name Vallhallan.com. The Complainant alleged that they had established common law trademark rights in the United States for the mark “V...
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May 17, 2023 DomainGang
Domain Law, RDNH, Reverse Domain Name Hijacking, Vallhallan.com
When you squat on brands with a serial pattern you are a serial cybersquatter. The UDRP involving the domain name inspirus.xyz exposed a domain investor’s practice of registering .XYZ domains of existing brands and offering them for sale, with th...
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May 17, 2023 DomainGang
Domain Law, inspirus.xyz
The company that applied to register the mark PRODIGY.COM did not achieve their goal. At the time, we speculated that in doing so, PostAds Group/PAProdigy was rebranding to Prodigy and Prodigy.com. All markers on its web site, PaProdigy.com indicate so...
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May 15, 2023 DomainGang
Domain Law, prodigy, prodigy.com, uspto
The winner of the Datacap.com auction paid $3,650 dollars in June 2022. It was a domain originally registered in 1994 and operated in recent years by IBM, that allowed it to lapse and drop. Datacap Systems, Inc., placed a backorder to acquire it at the...
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May 12, 2023 DomainGang
Datacap, Datacap Systems, Datacap.com, Domain Law
WebSec Holdings, B.V., the Netherlands, fired up their legal salvo to acquire the domain name Websec.com. Registered in 2002, the domain’s creation date predates the Dutch cybersecurity’s formation date by 18 whole years. Prior to the UDRP,...
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May 10, 2023 DomainGang
Domain Law, John Berryhill, Websec.com
Thursday Boot Company filed a UDRP to usurp the premium, aged, generic domain name Thursday.com. The UDRP failed because the Complainant’s marks were registered after the Respondent’s acquisition of the domain (registration: 1996) for $40,0...
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May 9, 2023 DomainGang
deny transfer, Domain Law, everse Domain Name Hijacking, RDNH, Thursday.com