There appears to have been plenty of bad faith in this dead-on-arrival UDRP. I've written about UDRP panelists sometimes letting Complainants off the hook for reverse domain name hijacking if they didn't hire a lawyer. That's bad, but I think ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Hair loss cybersquatting fight ends in reverse domain name hijacking
· Policy & LawI can understand why the Respondent was pulling his hair out over this dispute. A National Arbitration Forum panel has found Florida company Gapardis Health and Beauty, Inc. to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking over the domain name ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Peoples Bank of Mississippi tries reverse domain name hijacking
· Policy & LawSmall bank did not prove that the domain name owner registered PeoplesBank.com to target it. A National Arbitration Forum panel has determined (pdf) that Peoples Bank of Mississippi tried reverse domain name hijacking PeoplesBank.com in a ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Using a trademark in a domain for comparative advertising
· Policy & LawTwo mattress makers square off over a domain name. National Arbitration Forum published a UDRP decision today that is worth reading. It deals with a competitor using another company's brand name in a domain name. Bed and mattress company Hästens ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
UDRP for Catalyzer.com could have easily been avoided
· Policy & LawThis dead-on-arrival UDRP could have been avoided by asking the Complainant a simple question. Catalyzer, Inc, a leadership training organization, has lost a UDRP for Catalyzer.com. The case was dead on arrival. Catalyzer recently changed its ... Continue Reading5 Comments
UDRP panel: listen to John Berryhill
· Policy & LawGrocer fails to heed John Berryhill's good advice. A New York grocery chain has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking after it filed a cybersquatting case against the domain name dagostino.com. D’Agostinos Markets, Inc. filed the ... Continue Reading1 Comment
National Arbitration Forum phones its in on WellPath.com
· Policy & LawPanel returns a terse decision. At least it correctly denied the case. Perhaps the panel though it was deciding a Uniform Rapid Suspension case, not a Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy case. That's the only explanation I can come up ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Steve Jobs gets his domain name, twenty years later
· Policy & LawNational Arbitration Forum orders SteveJobs.com to be transferred. The Steve Jobs Archive, LLC, an organization formed by Steve Jobs' widow Laurene Powell Jobs, has obtained the domain name SteveJobs.com through a dispute. The company filed a ... Continue Reading5 Comments
How this RDNH could have been prevented
· Policy & LawA simple question could have prevented this cybersquatting complaint. A National Arbitration Forum Panelist has found that a complaint brought by Gary Chupik, a Washington man, over the domain name EliteMindset.com was attempted reverse domain name ... Continue Reading5 Comments
HBO wins TrueDetective.com domain name in cybersquatting fight
· Policy & LawHBO gets domain name for popular series. It didn't take gritty police work to solve a case over the domain name TrueDetective.com. HBO has won a cybersquatting dispute over the domain name for its popular True Detective show. The company filed a ... Continue Reading12 Comments