Flower company guilty of reserve domain name hijacking over Queen.com domain name.
It reached out to Schwartz in 2015 about buying the domain name but was unhappy with his offer of $2 million or $15,000 per month. Queen Flowers responded, “Are you kidding me?”.
It should be fairly obvious why the dispute failed on the grounds of rights and legitimate interests and registration in bad faith.
The World Intellectual Property Organization panel said this was a classic example of “Plan B” reverse domain name hijacking in which a company tries to buy a domain and then files a UDRP when it isn’t happy with the price. It also blasted Queen Flowers for not mentioning its purchase overture.
The panel further pointed out that the domain is a common dictionary word, and it didn’t provide any evidence that Schwartz would have heard of the company when he registered the name in 1997.
Queen Flowers was represented by Patrade A/S. Schwartz was represented by Zak Muscovitch.
Commenting on the case, Schwartz wrote:
I get to call Frands Jepsen, Managing Director of Queen.dk and their attorney, Patrade A/S, Denmark, CONVICTED LOW LIFE THIEVES for eternity and do it in PUBLIC anytime I choose just like my friend from the saveme.com RDNH decision.
Reverse Domain Name Hijacking THIEVES are nothing but low life cattle rustlers of the old west that got caught. In those days they would have been HUNG for their crimes! Wish the decision was a bit more detailed with a monetary penalty, but a big win, is a BIG win!! This was a BIGGIE!
And as promised, I now OWN their reputations and promise to make the public penalty much worse than any monetary one!
Justice served!
Congrats.
Congrats Rick. God Save The Queen.
God Save The “King”.
good response
Great decision that would hopefully cut off the “legs” of any such future challengers.
As predicted: http://domaingang.com/domain-news/queen-com-domain-udrp-high-odds-that-it-will-be-a-rdnh-finding-heres-why/
Congratulations to Rick and his legal team, can’t wait for the epic tweets LOL.
Now, go get your $100,000 and lawyers fees. Good going, Rick.
Congratulations to Rick on the outcome. A just decision.
Congrats to Rick and so nice to see. What an undignified action regarding such a great global asset they attempted. And Rick’s offer of $2 million was even a great bargain to begin with.
Their faith is in RIcks hands now. Queen.dk is shitting bricks now. HallofShame.com
Shame on the attorney that represented them. They should have been told from the start that they had no chance to steal the property. In my opinion, instead of paying their lawyer, that money should go to Rick.
Did it already forward to an adult cams site? It certainly does now, wonder if that’s Rick already handing out some additional justice? 😀
Please dont stop doing what you do Rick
Why would he forward a great asset to a adult site?
Congrats on the win to both he and Zak.
I see it’s not anymore. It was the other day!
Rick isn’t popular enough to do any damage lol.
TO THE KING!!!