Group owns .org version of domain name.
The charity that owns WalkTheWalk.org has filed a UDRP against Frank Schilling’s Name Administration Inc. for the domain name WalkTheWalk.com.
Walk the Walk Worldwide raises money to raise awareness about breast cancer. It certainly has an attention-grabbing approach: it gets women to walk marathons in bras to raise money.
The United Kingdom charity has a couple trademarks for the term, including for a logo and simply “walk the walk”. The trademark for merely the words was filed in the U.S. under 44(e) (as it it already had a foreign trademark) in 2007. Its United Kingdom trademark for “Walk the Walk” was filed in April 2005 and entered into the register in October 2006.
WalkTheWalk.org was registered way back in 1999. Although it was registered under a different name, it appears to be the same group that now runs the charity (based on Archive.org archives of the site). Which begs the question: why 14 years later?
Schilling has owned the domain name since at least February 2005, and possibly earlier.
Domainer Extraordinaire says
I gave crin.com to crin.org but walkthewalk is more generic.
Mike says
Reminds me of , WWF back when it was known as World Wrestling Federation . The world wildlife fund took that one.
Generic does not always mean very much I guess . Walkthewalk has been a term for longer than the Charity.I don’t agree they would or should have rights automatically.
Marg says
Hi Mike, I do remember the smackdown between the World Wildlife Fund and World Wrestling Federation. WWF had to re-brand to WWE, with the campaign slogan “Get the F out..”. Made me laugh then, and I still remember it.
Andy Cunningham says
Why 14 years later? Because they are doing their first US event this summer. The .com hasn’t been important to them until now.
marka says
Charity loses (as these carpet bagging bastards deserved to) !
https://domainnamewire.com/wp-content/walk-the-walk.pdf
Mike says
I was interested to read the UDRP for this WalkTheWalk.com and see the mention of an enquiry for sale of the domain being raised by the Complainant and this enquiry having been received from “alastair@fasterfwd.com” . Coincidentally we received an enquiry for a domain from the exact same email address, so people be very very cautious when responding to alastair@fasterfwd.com as I believe they act for a Law Firm based in London UK who try and build cases for UDRP’s . Be warned .