Tiger Woods Can’t Sink Putt for Child’s Domain Name

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

Woods loses domain name arbitration case.

Golfer Tiger Woods has lost an arbitration case to get the domain name that matches one of his kids’ names.

The case involved Woods’ second son, Charlie Axel Woods, and the domain name CharlieAxelWoods.com. To make his case, Tiger Woods claimed the domain name was confusingly similar to his trademark for “Tiger Woods”. But the arbitrator declined to find similarity, and rightfully so. Although it’s clear that the domain’s registrant registered it with Woods’ kid in mind (he even listed it for sale on eBay), UDRP is not the proper mechanism to get a domain name like this. It would be inappropriate to find a child’s name confusingly similar to a parent’s name. That said, I’m sure it has happened in the past.

Last month Tiger Woods filed a similar case for the domain name SamAlexisWoods.com. The registrant of the domain name offered to transfer it once the case was filed.

Further Reading:

  1. My-Childs-Name.com – the hot new trend

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  1. Latest Domainer News
    June 25th, 2009 | 12:13 pm

    Tiger Woods Can?t Sink Putt for Child?s Domain Name – http://tinyurl.com/ngc649

  2. Kelli Schmith
    June 25th, 2009 | 1:40 pm

    Tiger Woods loses domain name arbitration case. Shall the lesson be: check the URL before you name your child? http://bit.ly/acR9k #domain

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