Yes, two companies can operate with names that differ by one letter. A chemicals company has been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking over the domain name sichem.com. Sipchem Europe S.A. is part of the Saudi International Petrochemical Company (Sipchem), founded in 1999. The company filed a cybersquatting dispute with World Intellectual […]

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A poop scooping company tried to appeal a cybersquatting decision. A dog poop clean up company has been found to have tried reverse domain name hijacking. Scoop Soldiers Services Company, LLC, which runs franchise locations across the United States, filed a cybersquatting case against ScoopSoldier.com (singular). The company uses ScoopSoldiers.com (plural). This is the second […]

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Keeper Security failed to show that the domain was registered in bad faith. Cybersecurity company Keeper Security, Inc. has lost a cybersquatting dispute it filed against the domain name keeper .com. The Complainant argued that the domain name was spreading malware. It hired a private investigator who gathered evidence that suggested the domain owner was […]

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Spanish film producer goes after domain name used by publicly traded Chinese cinema operator. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has found (pdf) that Wanda Films, S.L. tried to reverse hijack the domain name WandaFilm.com. The company produces and distributes films in Europe and Latin America for the Spanish speaking market. It uses the domains […]

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Company filed a cybersquatting complaint without disclosing its long history with the domain owner. A fight between pool construction companies in Texas resulted in a misguided UDRP filing. Pools123 Houston LLC filed a dispute over Pools123Texas.com, which is registered by Aquamarine Pools of Texas. The case involved a confusing set of facts, but in a […]

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Domain investors successfully defend UDRP cases with the help of well-known domain attorneys. Czech Arbitration Court published two reverse domain name hijacking decisions today. Both cases involved personal name domains owned by domain name investors. Schwanhäußer Industrie Holding GmbH & Co.KG, which owns a biking accessories company called Gonso, filed a dispute against gonso.com. The […]

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A collection of six registrars in the XZ.com stable are back on the ICANN naughty step, facing more Compliance action just a couple of years after a sister company was suspended over UDRP failures. ICANN has published breach notices against DotMedia and five other registrars under common ownership, claiming that they are failing to send […]

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Hockey club wins cybersquatting dispute over confusingly similar name used to perpetuate fraud. The Edmonton Oilers hockey club has won a cybersquatting complaint it brought to disrupt an invoice fraud scam. In a dispute before the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the team said that the registrant of eBmontonoilers .com was cybersquatting with its registration […]

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Complainant previously owned the domain name, and tried to buy it back from a domain investor before filing a UDRP. Mangels Industrial S.A., a manufacturing company in Brazil, has been found to have tried to reverse hijack the domain name mangels.com. The company owned the domain at one point, but it let it expire (or […]

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UDRP carves out exceptions for legitimate use of brand names in domains. Textron Innovations Inc., the maker of airplanes and airplane parts including Cessna and Beechcraft, has lost another cybersquatting case under the Oki Data precedent. Oki Data was a case that established an idea of nominative fair use in domain names, at least as […]

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He made a tough case look easy. Oh, Jesus was definitely cybersquatting. But he performed a miracle to get away with it. Cybersecurity company Sysnet North America, Inc., which operates Viking Cloud at the domain name vikingcloud.com, filed a cybersquatting complaint against the registrant of vikiMgcloud .com. While I can’t be sure, Jesus apparently registered […]

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A surprising factor helped the domain registrant, and the panel rightfully decided this case was too close to call to order the domain transferred. OneTab Ltd, which offers a browser plugin for organizing tabs on Google Chrome, has lost a cybersquatting complaint in an interesting case that tested the bounds of the Uniform Domain Name […]

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Company files UDRP after failing to buy domain for two decades. A UDRP panel has found Work In Progress Creative Solutions Ltd, aka WIP Systems, guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. The company, which offers a workflow platform, started using the domain name wipsystems.co.uk in 2007 and wipsystems.com.au in 2018. It coveted wipsystems.com and filed […]

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Company searches for the domain name owner in the wrong Georgia. Jorge Almirall registered the domain name almirall.org in 2002 and has used it for email since then. This year, the Spanish pharmaceuticals company Almirall, S.A. filed a cybersquatting dispute against the domain name. With GDPR, nearly all domain names have protected Whois records. As […]

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The domain was registered well before the company existed. GigPig, A UK company that connects musicians with venues for gigs, has been led to the slaughterhouse in a cybersquatting dispute. The company filed a UDRP against GigPig.com, a domain that was registered in 2001. GigPig was founded in 2021, although it claims it has been […]

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Patent attorney files cybersquatting claim for his name, but loses because the domain is registered to someone else with the same name. Will the real John Rizvi please stand up? Oh, there are more than one of you. A Florida patent attorney named John Rizvi has lost (pdf) a cybersquatting dispute he filed against the […]

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The domain name owner was at least owed an explanation. A guy named Greg Foltz registered the domain GSF.com in 1993. He used it for his family and business (they are his initials, after all). Over thirty years later, Golden State Foods Corp comes along and files a UDRP against the domain name, claiming cybersquatting. […]

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Perhaps Law School Admission Council needs to go back to law school. The organization behind the LSAT test students take to get into law school has lost three cybersquatting claims against LSAT tutors. Law School Admission Council, Inc. filed the disputes under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) against various tutoring services that […]

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