Company hit with third UDRP loss of the year despite offer to transfer domain name at no charge.
Demand Media has another UDRP loss, despite its best efforts to close the case without a decision.
The case was filed by Universal American Corp for the domain name todaysoption.com. If you follow UDRP cases closely, this might look familiar. The complainant won a UDRP for the exact same domain name in 2009. But it managed to let the domain name expire after gaining control of it. Since the domain was registered at eNom, the Demand Media registrar added it to its own collection.
Demand Media says it offered to transfer the domain name to Universal American Corp three times after receiving the UDRP, but never heard back. The panel decided to issue a decision on the case and found against Demand Media.
The company frequently offers to transfer domain names when hit with a UDRP. Last year it offered to transfer succesories.com to Successories.com, LLC and transfer bhpbillito.com and bhpbillliton.com to BHP Billiton Innovation Pty Ltd. In both cases the complainants didn’t accept the offer and Demand Media lost the cases.
This is the company’s third UDRP loss for the year. It lost six cases last year.
John Berryhill says
There’s an interesting line in there:
“Also, Respondent had constructive notice that this very domain name had been previously awarded to Complainant in an earlier proceeding by another Panel.”
Is this another “catch and release” UDRP complainant?
Jp says
This brings up an interesting point regarding rules barring an application for a new tld if you have too many udrp losses. Demand offered to transfer it but the offers were ignored. They received a loas as a result of the complainant either neglecting the emails or intentionally causing the loss. That should have been a draw.