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Stanley Pace challenges another UDRP decision in court

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Lawsuit filed to halt transfer of Lascal.com.

Stanley Pace, who has a history of UDRP cases as well as challenging adverse decisions in court, has filed a lawsuit (pdf) in an effort to overturn a decision against his domain name Lascal.com.

Joran Lundh, who is associated with the stroller and kids safety business Lascal, filed a complaint against Lascal.com with World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in August.

Pace acquired the domain name in 2016 when it expired. He argued that he registered it because Lascal is a surname and a term to described planned roads between Las Vegas and California.

The single-member WIPO panel agreed with Lundh that Pace was cybersquatting with his registration of lascal.com and ordered the domain name to be transferred.

In response, Pace filed a lawsuit arguing this is a case of reverse domain name hijacking. He is asking a court for declaratory relief and attorney’s fees.

Pace recently moved from Texas to Washington and hired Seattle-based lawyer Derek Newman to represent him in the lawsuit. (Steven Rinehart represented Pace in the UDRP.)

Lundh, a Swedish citizen located in Hong Kong, submitted to jurisdiction in Pace’s location when he filed the UDRP.

Stanley Pace sues for alleged Reverse Domain Name Hijacking

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Pace sues after losing UDRP to dancewear company.

Stanley Pace, a Texas resident who has faced his fair share of UDRP complaints, lost another one last month. A three member UDRP panel ordered the domain name Yumiko.com transferred to dancewear company Yumiko, LLC.

He’s fighting back to halt the transfer and is asking for damages under the Anti-cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act for reverse domain name hijacking.

Pace filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas on December 30. This will halt the transfer of the domain name, and now Yumiko will find itself on the defensive.

Howard Neu, who represented Pace in the UDRP, is also representing him in the lawsuit. Click here to continue reading…

Domain investor files preemptive lawsuit after UDRP filing

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It’s his second lawsuit in just a few days, too.

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If you’re going to court for one domain name matter, why not a second one?

Last week, I wrote about how domain name investor Stanley Pace filed a lawsuit to block the transfer of Celluvation.com. Pace filed the case after losing a UDRP for the domain name.

It turns out that’s not the only case Pace filed with the court last week. On Friday, his attorney Derek Newman filed a second case (pdf). This one is against Normani GmbH over the domain name Normani.com. [Update: Pace dismissed the lawsuit after winning the UDRP.]

Like the Celluvation.com case, Pace is asking for declaratory relief as well as a finding of reverse domain name hijacking.

Unlike the Celluvation.com case, World Intellectual Property Organization hasn’t yet published a determination on the UDRP for Normani.com. [Update 11/6/20: WIPO denied the UDRP.]

Pace has a history of challenging UDRP decisions in court.

Lawsuit filed over Celluvation.com after UDRP decision

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Lawsuit asks for damages for reverse domain name hijacking.

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Domain name investor Stanley Pace has filed a lawsuit (pdf) to halt the transfer of Celluvation.com.

World Intellectual Property Organization panelist Badgley ordered the domain name transferred in a UDRP decision dated September 11. In that decision, Badgley found that Pace registered the domain name in bad faith. Badgley said that Pace gave a “blatant falsehood” to the panel that he searched for trademarks when he registered the domain in 2011 and didn’t find any. There were two active trademarks for the domain at the time, Badgley noted.

In his lawsuit, Pace argues that Badgley’s decision was based on “false testimony” from the Complainant Jos Daniel.

Pace is seeking declaratory relief that he isn’t violating the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, as well as damages for reverse domain name hijacking.

Derek Newman of Newman Du Wors LLP is representing Pace. Newman Du Wors is based in Seattle, and Daniel submitted to jurisdiction there when filing the UDRP because the domain is registered at Epik, a Seattle-area domain name registrar. Howard Neu represented Pace in the UDRP.

Texas man sues Fortune 500 liquor company to overturn cybersquatting decision

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Liquor company says that Rufino.com is a typo of its Ruffino brand.

Wine maker Ruffino claims that Rufino.com is a typosquatting domain.

A Texas man who owns 60,000 domain names has sued Fortune 500 liquor company Constellation Brands, Inc in an effort to overturn an adverse Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) decision.

Constellation Brands (NYSE: STZ) and its wine-making subsidiary Ruffino SRL filed a UDRP against Flower Mound, Texas resident Stanley Pace arguing that his domain name Rufino.com (one ‘f’) was typosquatting and an attempt to take advantage of the Ruffino brand. Pace countered that he owns 10,000 domain names that match surnames and that Rufino is a surname.

The UDRP panel sided with Constellation Brands. Pace filed suit in U.S. District Court Eastern District of Texas to try to overturn the decision.

The suit asks for declaratory relief stating that Pace is not cybersquatting and damages for reverse domain name hijacking.

Among Pace’s claims is that Constellation Brands falsely claimed in the UDRP that the parked page at Rufino.com showed ads for Constellation’s competitors. Although I didn’t see the evidence Constellation would generally be required to file in a UDRP, screenshots from the past several years recorded at Screenshots.com do not have any liquor-related ad links.

(Do not visit Rufino.com. It is now parked with Above.com and zero click landers, one of which led to a scam page that my antivirus software blocked.)

Howard Neu represented Pace in the UDRP and is representing him in the lawsuit.

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