Art storage and transportation company gets egg on its face.
The owner of Uovo.com, who picked it up when it expired in 2015, has successfully defended the domain name in a UDRP.
The case was brought by Uovo Art LLC, a New York City art storage and moving company that uses the domain name Uovo.org.
As I read the decision, it came across as particularly well defended. I guess it shouldn’t have come as a surprise when I noticed that John Berryhill represented the respondent.
Uovo means “egg” in Italian. It’s a generic, four-letter domain name.
Berryhill pointed out that, when Uovo was formed just a couple years ago, it bought the domain name Uovo.org from BuyDomains. This shows that that company recognized the commercial value of the term “uovo” when it started its business.
The complainant failed to prove bad faith registration and that the owner lacked legitimate rights or interests in the domain name.
Acro says
For those with an interest in linguistics, uovo comes from the Latin “ovum” (egg), which comes from the Greek “Ωόν” (oh-‘ohn). 😀
The .com owner might want to double their asking price to $250k. If the gallery is as hot as they claim to be, that’s the commission for selling a couple of paintings.
Ovum says
There are other possible buyers including:
http://www.UOVO-kyoto.com
http://www.UOVO.fr
http://www.UOVOcucina.com
http://www.UOVO.it
http://www.UOVOpiu.it
http://www.UOVO.dk
http://www.UOVO.tv
http://www.UOVOmagazine.blogspot.com.es
http://www.UOVO.biz
http://www.UOVOstudio.com
http://www.UOVOproject.it
http://www.cafeUOVO.com
http://www.UOVOmoderno.com
http://www.UOVO.co.jp
http://www.aletta-UOVO.com
http://www.kidsnet.cn/business/UOVO
thelegendaryjp says
To add to that Theo my wife asks me how many Uova I want 🙂
C. S. Watch says
The Panel notes, ‘The Respondent has made a plausible showing, supported by some evidence, that domain names consisting of four letter generic words also may be valuable commodities in the domain name secondary market.’
Well, there’s a gift for dry humor.
Where panelists are empowered to abridge due process rights, panelists must acquaint themselves with the value of the property rights at issue. It would be negligence to accept a panelist appointment without scanning the published sales which document market values. (http://mostexpensivedomain.name, etc.)
What Yanomami is popping out of the shrubbery asking if dot-coms like this are valuable commodities?