A UDRP was filed against the Lotto.com domain name at the World Intellectual Property Organization. The complainant in the UDRP is Bremer Toto und Lotto GmbH of Germany. The decision was published on the WIPO website today, and not surprisingly, the domain registrant won the UDRP.
The respondent’s contention in the decision is what caught my attention (bold emphasis is mine):
In November of 2019, I saw that a UDRP was filed against the FEEV.com domain name at the World Intellectual Property Organization. When I saw the UDRP filing, I speculated that it could be a case of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) because a quick Whois lookup showed “the registrant organization of the domain name is and has been FeeV.” The complainant in the UDRP is a company called Feev Holding B.V.
A UDRP was filed against FEEV .com by a company that appears to have been found this year: https://t.co/4OSf3ijRAX According to @DomainTools, the registrant organization of the domain name is and has been FeeV. From the looks of it, could be RDNH https://t.co/9Tlzbbtv6r
— Elliot Silver (@DInvesting) November 8, 2019
Assurity Life Insurance Company filed a UDRP against the AssurityLife.com domain name. The UDRP was filed at the National Arbitration Foundation (NAF), and it is Claim Number: FA1911001872882. Because the domain registrant did not file a response to the UDRP, one might presume the complainant would have a much better chance at winning the proceeding. In this particular case, the panelist, Debrett G. Lyons, found in favor of the registrant.
One of the top domain names on the board at GoDaddy Auctions today is SilverSeas.com. The domain name sounds like it could be sort of generic in the color + keyword sense I suppose, but it is very similar to the Silversea cruise line brand name. It is the type of domain name that caught my attention, but I quickly decided it would probably end up causing issues and I am not going to participate in the auction.
A UDRP was filed against the SteveJobs.com domain name at the NAF. The complainant in this UDRP is Steve Jobs Archive, LLC, which is described in the complaint as “the lawful owner of the Steve Jobs publicity rights and the trademark rights in the STEVE JOBS name.” The UDRP decision was published yesterday evening, and the complainant won the proceeding and will get the SteveJobs.com domain name unless a lawsuit is filed to overturn the decision.
While looking through my WIPO Domain Name Decisions email this morning, I saw something I do not recall seeing in a UDRP decision before. An Italian company called Advice Group S.P.A. filed a UDRP against the seemingly generic AdviceGroup.com. The domain registrant, who I believe is a domain investor, did not respond to the UDRP filing.
