Mira Holdings asks court for help after losing cybersquatting case.
A domain name investment company has filed a lawsuit (pdf) to stay the domain transfer from a recent Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution case.
Earlier this month, I wrote about Temco Industrial’s UDRP filed against temco.com.
Domain investor Mira Holdings argued that Temco is a name used by many companies. The World Intellectual Property Organization panel that decided the case against Mira wrote that there’s evidence of “targeting of Complainant (or another business using the TEMCO trademark or name)”.
This suggests that the panel believed that whichever of those trademark holders was first to file a UDRP should get the domain name.
Mira Holdings filed its lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Arizona. It’s asking the court for a declaratory judgment that its domain registration is not cybersquatting, and for damages for reverse domain name hijacking.
Update: Miro Holdings dropped the case.
It was a bad unjust decision, so I hope this fixes that.
Such ABSURD bogus (non) reasoning too.
What if had been “Apple.com,” and the guy had spent years and seven figures pursuing it?
Investor: “Well, to explain, there are many companies using the name Apple, such as the Apple computer and phone company for instance, which is common knowledge…”
UDRP board: “Aha! You targeted them deliberately – you lose!”
And more like that.