A UDRP Complainant turned down an inexpensive settlement offer, only to lose the case.
A New York-area business owner has a reason to kick himself after turning down a settlement offer in a cybersquatting dispute.
Kyle Kantor of Good Ground Hospitality, LLC, which holds a trademark for Ovenly, filed a dispute against the domain ovenly.com.
After Kantor filed the dispute, the domain investor who owns the domain offered to transfer it for the price it paid to acquire it in an expired domain auction in 2024: $709.
Kantor declined and offered to pay only $100.
With a settlement off the table, the three-person panel proceeded to decide the case…in the domain owner’s favor.
The panel agreed that the trademark was pretty weak and that the name Ovenly is used by many different companies. It found that the Complainant didn’t show that the registrant lacked rights or legitimate interests in the domain name.
It will likely cost a lot more than $709 to get the domain now.
Ankur Raheja of Cylaw Solutions represented the domain name owner.
Beautiful, 3-person panel + representation + time cost thousands just for spite and got nothing in return. Sorry, got what he deserved.
Oh well! What a crazy and senseless complainant that is. The domain owner should revise the asking price now.
Congrats to Ankur and the respondent.
If I’m the domain owner it’s now a 6-figure name…
But then it would effectively be worth $0 because you’d likely never sell it at six figures…
But yeah, sure, the price needs to go waaaay higher than $709 now.
That’s the cost of being a cheap and dumb bastard!
Stick it up his ass!!
Congrats!
Hope Rick Schwartz adds this to his website HallofShame.com