Popular payment processor and affiliate company files complaint to get .co equivalent of its .com domain.
Add Click Sales, Inc, the company behind popular information products payment processor and affiliate network Clickbank, to the list of companies filing UDRP cases to get their .co domain name.
The company filed a complaint with World Intellectual Property Forum to get Clickbank.co. The domain name is currently registered by someone in China and parked at Sedo. It is also listed for sale at Sedo.
Last year about 50 cases were filed against .co domain registrants after .co was “relaunched”. The complainants haven’t lost yet.
Clickbank is known for being one of the top sales companies for information products such as eBooks and software.
Joe says
Clickbank.co is clearly infringing Clickbank’s TM, plus it’s parked (so possibly has been advertising some of their competitors).
Gnanes says
So many other .co owners are going to get burned with UDRP.
Jeff Schneider says
Hello Andrew,
It always amazes me how on top of this Industry you are. We as domainers need to watch each others backs.We will enconter big dogs that bite, and growl out of fear of losing their businesses niche.
Thanks for your diligence!
Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger)
em says
Clear infringement. This is an issue that has been blown out of proportion. There has been only one controversial decision with .co and that was pokerstrategy.co. The rest were pretty clear. People registering TMs and looking to make millions. Bad plan.
Joe says
It would have been the same if someone had done the same thing with Clickbank.net instead of .CO: ClickBank would have filed a complaint and would have got the domain (they actually own the .net). IMO this shows how much potential .CO domains have, maybe more than .net if so many TM holders fear them (I’m sure it’s quite unlikely Clickbank or any other TM holder are going to file a complaint against their TM in a random TLD domain, even if parked and in a TLD somewhat similar to .com like .cc or .cm).
TDJ says
What about generic-termed .co’s that ARE trademarked by someone. For example, would “movietickets.co” be subject to a UDRP by “movietickets.com”? (Just using this as an example).
Thanks,
TD
Jason says
.CO will be a better place if this cybersquatter looses his/her domain.
Go .CO!
Gazzip says
Agree with em
The next big test .co has to face up to is what happens when some of the pure generics end up in front of UDRP from the .com holders ??
Could get pretty messy real fast.
Duke says
.co = .com typo
.co = .confusion
.co = .con
steve says
i have a bunch of these .co companies… i wonder if i will get my money back from the big companies when they ask for them… i didn’t understand the rules… lol
David Garcia says
So clickbank, a real pro in the net biz, DROPS THE BALL, forgets to register its dot co for under $30.00 and now is spending thousands to recover it, right? Pay now or pay later.
Joe says
@David Garcia
I agree with you. IMO almost all of these complainants we’re seeing lately are companies that thought .CO was just the next vanity TLD and wasn’t even worth the $30 registration fee for brand protection purposes. Now they’re are realizing the potential of the extension and starting to fear the owners of their CO’s. Guess what’s the only weapon they have to recover them?
Kolcak, Sumer says
Trust me, if your name is not an american name, they will spend $100k on lawyers to file trademark claims to get their name from you instead of doing business with you and getting the name for only 1/3 of that price.
it is what gives the comfort.
they do not want to go down in history as ” paid money to a non-american to purchase a domain name “..
the system is gross.
i am not making things up, i lost 2 .co domains so far and more will be lost in a month i can sense it, they noticed my name is not american, so they decide to spend $2mil on legal system rather than buy the domain for alot less than that directly from me.
– Sumer Kolcak
Kolcak, Sumer says
Most trademark claims are filed under the case of ‘BAD FAITH’.
If you want to debate or reasonate with the ‘BAD FAITH’ claims on trademark and UDRP claims, trust me, they got $millions, you got nothing. they win.
they always win.
somehow, someway they win.
because money can modify papers that look like ‘bad faith’….
– Sumer Kolcak