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Spain-based The Hype Company filed a UDRP to usurp the domain TheHypeCompany.com held by a domain name investor. In doing so, it presented a variety of registered country trademarks for HYPE THE HYPE COMPANY. These marks were applied for or registered ...
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September 23, 2021 DomainGang
deny transfer, Domain Law, HYPE THE HYPE COMPANY, MegaDomains, TheHypeCompany.com
LiveVideo.com, an aged domain registered in 1995, was offered for sale with a $500,000 dollar price tag to its previous registrant. Oddly, the domain was in the control of Livevideo.com Inc. until 2018, when the company lost control of it. They filed a...
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September 22, 2021 DomainGang
Domain Law, LiveVideo.com
Barnes & Noble, operators of the largest bookstore in the US, operate from the domain BarnesAndNoble.com. They also own the two letter domain BN.com, which they use as a URL forwarder to the Barnes & Noble web site. The company has now applied ...
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September 22, 2021 DomainGang
Barnes & Noble, bn.com, Domain Law, uspto
In July we covered the UDRP filing of NURO.com, a domain owned by Francois of popular domain news aggregator, Domaining.com. At the end of August, we contacted Francois who told us that panelists were scarce at WIPO and the case hadn’t started ye...
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September 21, 2021 DomainGang
Domain Law, Nuro, Nuro.com, RDNH, Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
British semiconductor giant, Arm Limited, lost two UDRP cases it filed at the WIPO. Both cases involved domains that contain the “arm” string: Arm.ai and ChinaArm.com. Neither Respondent in these cases bothered to respond, but the WIPO pane...
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September 20, 2021 DomainGang
ARM, Arm.ai, ChinaArm.com, Domain Law
The operators of the domain Kwik.com have applied for the registration of the matching trademark, KWIK.COM, with an “intent to use” clause. The mark was applied for the following goods and services: Providing a website for connecting seller...
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September 20, 2021 DomainGang
Domain Law, KWIK, Kwik.com, Kwikclick, uspto
B&B Hotels, France, send its legal team across the pond to England, where the holder of the domain Hotelbnb.com is located. In the ensuing UDRP the Complainant cited several French and European marks, such as B&B HOTEL and B&B HOTELS and th...
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September 17, 2021 DomainGang
deny transfer, Domain Law, Hotelbnb.com
Calendso, an event and meeting scheduling software company, has changed its brand to Cal and has acquired the matching domain, Cal.com. The rebranding began in early 2021 along with the domain’s acquisition. The company announced its domain rebra...
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September 17, 2021 DomainGang
Cal, Cal.com, Calendso, Domain Law, domain rebranding, Peer Richelsen
JPN.com is a domain that belongs to the CentralNic network, offering what’s essentially third level domains (subdomains) at around $65 dollars a pop. Bitmain.JPN.com ended up in a UDRP, after Bitmain Technologies Limited filed a dispute at the F...
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September 16, 2021 DomainGang
Bitmain, Bitmain.JPN.com, Domain Law, JPN.com
A UDRP filed by the owner of the hijacked (stolen) domain JixHost.com has been successful in its goal; the decision orders the domain to be returned to its rightful owner. According to the decision, the Administrative Panel’s finding is as follow...
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September 15, 2021 DomainGang
Domain Law, JixHost.com, John Berryhill, stolen domain