Company intentionally provided incomplete material evidence, panel determines. Ferm-O-Feed B.V., a fertilizer company based in the Netherlands, has been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking over the domain name Fertiplus.com. The World Intellectual Property Organization panel determined that Ferm-O-Feed “provided intentionally incomplete material evidence.” The case follows a familiar pattern found in […]
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August 3, 2018 Andrew Allemann
Policy & Law, Reverse Domain Name Hijacking, world intellectual property organization
PapaJohn’s Pizza is a franchised brand that gained notoriety in recent times; its founder, John Schnatter, resigned from company officer after a racial slur was made public. The founder is now embattled with the board of directors, in an attempt ...
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August 2, 2018 DomainGang
Domain Law, PapaJohns UDRP, PapaJohns.eu
The domain name Harrier.com was registered in 1992, the pre-dawn of the commercial Internet. It’s a generic dictionary word, and its current registrant listed it for sale on the Uniregistry Market. Tata Motors of India, has filed a UDRP against t...
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July 30, 2018 DomainGang
.tata, Domain Law, Harrier, Harrier.com, Tata domains, Tata Harrier, Tata Motors
Electrum is a naturally occurring alloy of gold and silver, with trace amounts of copper and other metals. It was used by the Greeks and Byzantines who called it “white gold” to produce coins, and is often known as green gold. Therefore, by...
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July 30, 2018 DomainGang
Bitcoin wallet, Domain Law, electrum, Electrum domains, Electrum.com
The aged, generic domain RoofPro.com was sent to the WIPO via the UDRP process; the Complainant is RoofPro, LLC of Severn, Maryland. The Respondent and registrant of the 2001 domain was represented by ESQwire.com. Note: ESQwire is a sponsor of DomainGa...
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July 20, 2018 DomainGang
Domain Law, esqwire, RDNH, Reverse Domain Name Hijacking, RoofPro, RoofPro.com
In the recent case concerning Chatroulette.org , the Panel demonstrated the responsible and prudent approach in evaluating evidence in the UDRP. The Panel stated as follows: “The Panel takes the view that the Respondent’s denial of knowledg...
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July 19, 2018 Zak Muscovitch
Domain Law, Law & Policy
Xedoc Holding SA of Luxembourg won the UDRP for the domain Chatroulette.org. Registered in 2009, and only fives days after the .COM variant went viral on the Internet, the domain was challenged by Andrey Ternovskiy dba Chatroulette of Sliema, Malta, cu...
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July 16, 2018 DomainGang
Domain Law, Xedoc Holding
The registrant of the domain Petplans.org wanted to create a memorial/cremation web site for pets, but Pet Plan Ltd. of Surrey, United Kingdom filed a UDRP. Asserting that the domain is infringing on their PETPLAN mark, the Complainant listed a bunch o...
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July 6, 2018 DomainGang
Domain Law, petplans, petplans.org
The domain name FAMA.com was registered in 1996; the aged CVCV .com was the subject of a UDRP at the WIPO. Complainant is Fabricación de Maquinas, S.A. de C.V. of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico that attempted to get the domain, based on a Mexican tradem...
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July 3, 2018 DomainGang
Domain Law, fama, fama.com
The domain name Toptile.com was registered in 2003; fifteen years later, it’s lost via the UDRP process at the WIPO. The Complainants are Halstead C&W Corporation of Norwalk, Connecticut, and Tower IPCO Company Limited of Dublin, Ireland. The...
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July 2, 2018 DomainGang
Domain Law, Toptile, Toptile.com