Donuts and ice cream are big business in United Arab Emirates.
Dunkin’ Brands, through two intellectual property holding companies, has filed for arbitration to get United Arab Emirates .ae domain names related to two of its brands.
The two separate cases were filed with World Intellectual Property Organization. In the first case, the company filed for two domains related to Dunkin’ Donuts: dunkin-donuts.ae and dunkindonuts.ae. The second case is for Baskin Robbins: baskin-robbins.ae and baskinrobbins.ae.
United Arab Emirates recently liberalized its registration rules. The domain names were probably registered after the registration rules changed.
Both Dunkin’ Donuts and Baskin Robbins have stores in United Arab Emirates.
All of the domain names are registered to Ali Abdelwahed. Abdelwahed also received a domain arbitration filing for hardees.ae, filed by the popular fast food restaurant chain. Hardees is part of CKE Restaurants, Inc. (NYSE: CKR).
majed says
well, i guess this issue can be solved easily … without filling up a udrp with World Intellectual Property …
the registry of .ae is the “TRA” … they could just contact them, and am sure this matter would be solved with in the same day.
they are located in dubai. and usually in dubai they emphasize on copyrights and brands strictly …
this guy would lose the domains very easily … most of the time they wont wait for his response even