Company files cybersquatting claim against domain registered well before it existed.
A Russian company that makes gaming PCs has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking.
Khaiper PK, aka Hyper PC, filed the dispute against the domain name hyperpc.com after first inquiring about buying it.
FastHost Limited, a web hosting firm, registered the domain name in 1993. It used the domain as a hosting brand for several years and, after that, for part of its infrastructure.
The Complainant didn’t exist until 2010. This made the case dead on arrival because the domain couldn’t have been registered in 1999 to target the then-non-existent Complainant.
To get around this, the Complainant argued that there was a Whois update in March, 2025, suggesting that, “the Respondent either acquired, renewed, transferred, or otherwise modified the registration at a time when the Complainant’s HYPERPC trademark was already well-established and widely known internationally.”
Even after the Respondent explained its long-running ownership of the domain, the Complainant doubled down in a supplemental filing.
In a lengthy reverse domain name hijacking explanation (pdf), World Intellectual Property Organization panelist John Swinson said he had “little difficulty” finding RDNH.
He also noted that the Complainant “appears to just invent legal principles.”
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