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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Domain investors may shoulder additional risk when they register domains in the relaunching .ad TLD, judging by the registry’s new cybersquatting policy. Andorra Telecom, which will make .ad names generally available globally October 22, has signed up with WIPO to implement an adapted version of the UDRP that is a lot less friendly to domainers. […]

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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 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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It tried to use UDRP to resolve a trademark dispute, not a cybersquatting dispute. Descon Engineering Limited has been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking in a dispute over desconllc.com. The company uses the domain descon.com. The dispute the company filed is a trademark dispute, not a cybersquatting dispute under the Uniform […]

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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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