Company loses a UDRP for the third time in just 6 tries.
Online shoe retailer ShoeBuy.com might need to re-read the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Policy.
It just lost its third UDRP. It has only won three times.
This latest loss comes courtesy of typosquatting recovery firm CitizenHawk, which helped ShoeBuy.com go after ShowBuy.com.
Yes, w is right next to e on the keyboard. But a UDRP panel determined that ShowBuy.com, made up of two common dictionary words, is not confusingly similar to ShoeBuy.com.
To be fair to CitizenHawk, this is the first ShoeBuy.com loss that it was involved with. CitizenHawk won three previous cases for ShoeBuy.com-related domain names. The two prior losses were on the hands of large law firms.
[The original version of this article stated that ShoeBuy had three wins and four losses. One of the cases I read as a loss was actually when ShoeBuy was the respondent in the case and won. So it’s record as complainant is actually 3-of-6.]
Domainer says
Hectic!!! I don’t get it why people have to nit-pick to that degree. I know there is a lot of money at stake, but domain name wars can get nasty!
phil says
Shoe and Show may look and sound similar, but one is a noun, the other is a verb, with completely different meanings.
Kristina says
ShoeBuy.com, Inc. actually has a 4-3 record if you include the proceeding in which it was the Respondent. (D2010-2142) Not only did ShoeBuy.com, Inc. prevail in that proceeding, but the Panel found that the Complainant had engaged in reverse domain name hijacking. (I know this because I represented the company in that proceeding and sought the RDNH finding). If you’re only counting proceedings in which ShoeBuy.com was the Complainant, it’s record is 3-3.
Andrew Allemann says
Ah, you’re right. It’s not often that a complainant on multiple cases is a respondent on another so I overlooked that. Thanks.