WIPO panelist says this isn’t a case of cybersquatting. Shahryar Oveissi has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in a dispute over three domain names. Oveissi is the son of the former Shah of Iran’s Imperial Army, who was assassinated in Paris in 1984. He was raised in the United States and is […]

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Company filed cybersquatting complaint after trying to buy the domain name. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has determined that WebSec Holdings, B.V., a cybersecurity company in the Netherlands, attempted to reverse domain name hijack websec.com. The domain owner acquired the domain in 2016 and created a web security site that has since gone dormant. […]

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Thursday Boot Company tried to reverse domain name hijack thursday.com Sometimes you’d be willing to bet that a UDRP will result in a reverse domain name hijacking finding based on the domain alone, before even seeing the facts. Thursday.com is one of those cases. Thursday Boot Company filed a UDRP against the valuable thursday.com domain […]

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This case was dead on arrival. TicketSms s.r.l., an online ticketing company, has been found (pdf) to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking over the domain names ticketsms.com and ticketsms.net. The complaint followed a common fact pattern: a business that didn’t exist when the Respondent registered the domain name covets the domain name. In […]

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Company omitted key details in cybersquatting filing. Dewberry Engineers Inc has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking (pdf) after omitting key details in a UDRP. The company filed a cybersquatting complaint against JKDewberry.com. The domain is registered to Dewberry Group, which is owned by John K. Dewberry. Based on those details alone, this […]

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