Lambo.com registrant plans to continue fighting.
The registrant of the domain name lambo.com plans to appeal a lawsuit over the domain name.
Lamborghini won a dispute it filed under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) for the domain name in 2022. The owner of the domain filed a lawsuit to stay the decision.
The carmaker filed a motion for summary judgment in that suit, and the judge granted that motion in a decision last month. The judge ordered the domain transferred to the carmaker.
Richard Blair, who acquired the domain for $10,000 in 2018, had defended his registration of the domain by arguing that he was known as “Lambo” and used that name as a username on the domain forum NamePros. But the court noted that he didn’t adopt that nickname until after acquiring the domain:
Last week, Blair filed a notice of appeal.
The domain currently resolves to a landing page offering the domain for sale for $75 million.
Peak domain stupidity, he can stay at Namepros.
I remember reading over the arguments for this a while back and if I recall correctly, the domain has been priced for sale for some time. That wouldn’t look good for the domainer.
However, the argument that Lambo didn’t start going by Lambo until after he acquired the domain name seems an an odd reason to deny. If I were to able to somehow acquire nick.com legally, I’d totally start going by “Nick” everywhere that it wasn’t already taken (I think there’s a few Nicks already at Namepros).
Bad evil decision against registrant. I explained in a previous comment.
We live in a world heavily tilted in favor of the rich and powerful, and that’s what happened here, along with the mental gymnastics that often go with that. The opposite if it ever occurs is the exception.
It is an obvious infringement, get some common sense John.