Volkswagen launched a “Drive Bigger” campaign and applied for the trademark DRIVE BIGGER early in 2019. Three days after the announcement, someone registered the domain DriveBigger.com, and parked it on Undeveloped. Eventually, the platform...
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December 7, 2019 DomainGang
DAN.com, Domain Law, Drive Bigger, DriveBigger.com, Undeveloped
The domain Localvore.com was registered in 2006, and its Registrant used it consistently with food-related guide services since then. In 2012, another company began to use the term, and managed to register LOCALVORE TODAY, and in 2017 LOCALVORE with th...
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December 6, 2019 DomainGang
Domain Law, localvore, Localvore.com
The UDRP against the aged, generic domain AdviceGroup.com, didn’t end well for the Complainant, Advice Group S.P.A., Italy. The Complainant was found to be abusing the process to gain the domain, and was slapped with both a transfer refusal and a...
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December 5, 2019 DomainGang
advicegroup.com, Domain Law, RDNH, Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
Darren Findling Law Firm PLC filed a UDRP to take control of the domain ProbatePro.com. The Complainant operates from TheProbatePro.com and in the UDRP it claimed common law rights in THE PROBATE PRO mark. The Respondent is a US citizen who has been in...
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December 4, 2019 DomainGang
Domain Law, esqwire, Probatepro.com
We’ve seen some domain crap being taken to the UDRP process, but this one has to be the biggest collection of poop domains ever. To be exact, 74 “poop domains” were included in a UDRP filed by Crown Products LLC. The Complainant is in...
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December 3, 2019 DomainGang
DOmain crap, Domain Law, grant transfer, poop domains
SCX.ch is a Swiss cryptocurrency services domain that was sold twice in the course of a year; first, in 2018 to SwissClass Trade AG for 50,000 Swiss francs (CHF,) and a year later to the current registrant for 60,000 CHF. The first seller, Blockworks A...
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December 3, 2019 DomainGang
deny transfer, Domain Law, SCX.ch
Qatar’s Tourism Council launched a fight over a domain name, and now it needs to defend itself in U.S. Court. A man from Azerbaijan is suing the Qatar National Tourism Council—in Colorado. Teymur Mehdiyev filed a lawsuit (pdf) in U.S. District Court, District of Colorado, after the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) ordered that his […]
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November 27, 2019 Andrew Allemann
Policy & Law
Italian families are large, and the Taffo family is split over decisions made for their business ventures, funeral services. The Taffo family – composed by Luciano Giustino, Giuseppe, Piero, Daniele, Alessandro, Angelo, Giacomo and Giulia – has been to...
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November 25, 2019 DomainGang
Domain Law, Italian domains, Taffo, Taffo.com
Greenmood.com, a domain registered in 2009, was challenged via the UDRP process at the WIPO by a Belgian company. Operating from the matching .BE domain, Sadig Alakbarov, stated that his company Pack & Co S.P.R.L. offers “stabilized plant products”...
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November 22, 2019 DomainGang
deny transfer, Domain Law, Greenmood, Greenmood.com
Vudo.com, a domain registered in 1999, was challenged via the UDRP process at the WIPO. The Complainant is Vudu, Inc., that according to the UDRP filed incorrect information regarding their brand’s formation date, which was not in 1995. They oper...
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November 20, 2019 DomainGang
Domain Law, RDNH, Reverse Domain Name Hijacking, Vudo.com