HBO gets domain name for popular series.
HBO has won a cybersquatting dispute over the domain name for its popular True Detective show.
The company filed a complaint with National Arbitration Forum under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy, arguing that the owner of the domain was cybersquatting.
A National Arbitration Forum panelist came to an easy decision in favor of HBO. A parked page at TrueDetective.com includes ad links for “HBO True Detective” and “HBOGO”. The owner of the domain didn’t bother to respond to the allegations, either.
True Detective has aired for three seasons and featured stars including Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, Colin Farrell, and Vince Vaughn.
Fabricio Vayra of Perkins Coie LLP represented HBO.
Generic,should have avoided ads
Andrew,
Totally unrelated but the number of .app registered is faked.
Today, 9377 nonsense .app added while it’s usually 200.
Thousands of domains like YayuXXX.app or YaqiXXXX.app (where X are Numbers) were registered under privacy at GoDaddy.
It’s not the first day that the number of .app domains registered is HUGELY inflated with massive nonsense adds…
Might be worth looking into this.
I don’t think the stats are being faked. It’s a question of why did someone register so many domains and what are they doing with them? Some sort of scam? Can you send me the full list from the day?
The full list is available from DN pedia https://dnpedia.com/tlds/daily.php
They aren’t under Whois privacy, but they appear to be registered with fake info and information about a Chinese registrant. Generally when you see this, it’s someone registering for spam or something similar. But you don’t often see such a thing in a higher-priced TLD like .app.
They did it again today !
Thousands of YaqiXXXX.app and YayuXXXX.app registered.
Weird. Have reached out to Google and GoDaddy
Thousands more YaqiXXXX.app and YayuXXXX.app today.
And again today…
18,000 junk .app added today !
Might I suggest that anyone “expecting” or believing they might be subject to a UDRP makes a “Data Subject Access Request” under the GDPR to see what WHOIS data (historic and otherwise) they hold ,and request that they delete such data and do not process you personal data. Too often Domain Tools has supplied such Data to Lawyers to use against UDRP Respondents and such processing is quite likely unlawful both by Domain Tools and by the Lawyer who purchase it from them .This explains how to make a request;
https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protection/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/individual-rights/right-of-access/
Do it now before it is too late !!
17,000 junk .app added today !