Negotiation Dooms Complainant’s UDRP in Vallila.com Decision

Elliot Silver
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An interior design company in Finland called Vallila filed a UDRP to try and wrest control of the Vallila.com domain name from its rightful owner. The company operates on Vallila.fi, so owning the exact match .com domain name would have been ideal for them. Instead of buying the domain name, which the company tried to do but failed, the company opted to file a UDRP instead. They failed at that approach as well.

Vallila is a neighborhood in Helsinki, Finland. As such, owning the geographic exact match .com domain name is fair game. A company called Linkz Internet Services has owned Vallila.com for quite some time, and the Uniregistry-parked page has travel related advertising displayed.

In the UDRP decision, it was revealed that the company tried to acquire Vallila.com. The complainant discussed this in its filing, but apparently left out some pertinent information that was provided by the respondent’s attorney, John Berryhill. Here’s an excerpt from the section in the UDRP decision discussing Reverse Domain Name Hijacking:

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“Penis Doctor Loses UDRP, Reverse Hijacking Found over PSHOT.COM”

Elliot Silver
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This headline, written on Twitter by domain industry attorney Zak Muscovitch, was too good to not share in its own blog post:

Zak’s firm represented the owner of PSHOT.com in a UDRP filing against a “penis doctor.” The domain owner won the UDRP and Zak’s defense obtained a Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) finding.

Here’s an excerpt of the decision regarding RDNH. The entire decision can be found in a pdf file on DNAttorney.com:

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IMI.com Subject of UDRP (Updated)

Elliot Silver
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A UDRP was filed at the National Arbitration Forum (NAF) against the valuable IMI.com domain name. The  filing can be seen at UDRPSearch.com, and it is case #1753342.

IMI.com was created in March of 1994. The domain name is currently registered to a California-based company. Using the DomainTools Whois History Tool, I can see Whois records since 2000. The email address on the earliest record in 2000 matches the email address of the current registrant, so the registrant has had it for at least 17 years.

When I visited IMI.com, I was taken to a website that says “Internet Marketing Inc a PartnerVision venture” in the header. Obviously IMI is short for Internet Marketing Inc. Below this, there is a notice that says the website moved to PartnerVision.org. Below this are helpful links “for other IMI Companies.”

Interestingly, there is a page within the website that says the IMI.com and IMI.info domain names are for sale. There is absolutely nothing wrong with selling valuable domain names like IMI.com (just ask a publicly traded company like GoDaddy which has sold many millions of dollars worth of generic domain names like this one). The price may seem high (“offers less than two million dollars will not be considered.”) but a domain name owner can ask whatever price he or she wants and there is nothing wrong with that. Domain owners have the right to ask whatever price they want for their assets and if someone thinks it is too expensive, they can go find something else within their budget. That’s how it works – just like real estate.

Because this UDRP was filed at NAF, the entity that filed the complaint is not yet known. A Google search for “IMI” returned a ton of businesses and organizations that may have filed the UDRP. Some of the top results for a search of IMI include:

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JAT.com Subject of UDRP Filing (Updated)

Elliot Silver
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A UDRP was just filed against the valuable three letter JAT.com domain name at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The UDRP filing is case #D2017-1986.

JAT.com was originally registered in March of 1997, making this domain name more than twenty years old. At the time of publication, JAT.com is registered under privacy proxy at GoDaddy, so I am not sure who owns the domain name. When I visited JAT.com to see how the domain name is being used, I see a coming soon page that says, “jat.com is almost here! Upload your website to get started.”

The complainant in this UDRP is Air Serbia a.d. Beograd Jurija. According to the airline’s Wikipedia page, the company was previously known as Jat Airways. When I did a Whois History search at DomainTools, I noticed that the company appears to have previously owned the domain name. In 2015, the admin name was Air Serbia, according to DomainTools. It looks like the predecessor to Air Serbia was the registrant of the domain name since at least 2001, which is the earliest Whois History record at DomainTools (the domain name was registered to Jugoslovenski Aerotransport back then). Up until at least February of this year, JAT.com forwarded to AirSerbia.com, according to Archive.org.

What is unclear to me is

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Domain Registrant Suggests UDRP to Get Access to Domain Name

Elliot Silver
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I was surprised when I saw a UDRP filing against the seemingly generic F45.com domain name, although I have documented plenty of UDRPs involving generic domain names. I was not surprised when I saw the domain registrant win the UDRP. That is, until I read the decision.

From what I can understand, the complainant wanted to buy F45.com and the domain name registrant was willing to sell it for $15,000. The complainant offered $12,500 and then agreed to pay the registrant’s $15,000 asking price. When it came time to finish the deal, the domain registrant had some issues accessing the domain name at Name.com. As a means to solve the problem, he suggested that the complainant file a UDRP, which he would not oppose.

Here’s the excerpt from the decision, which can be found on WIPO’s website:

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Glory.com Hit With UDRP (Updated)

Elliot Silver
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A UDRP was filed at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) against the generic Glory.com domain name. The UDRP filing is WIPO Case D2017-1900.

Glory.com was created in February of 1995, making this domain name more than 22 years old. The domain name is registered to a company called MicroStrategy, Inc., a publicly traded company whose stock trades on the NASDAQ market (symbol: MSTR). The company has a market cap of nearly $1.5 billion USD. The earliest Whois history record at DomainTools is from 2002, and MicroStrategy was the registrant at that time. It is likely that the company owned Glory.com longer than that. At the time of publication, Glory.com does not resolve for me. I think this domain name is easily worth 6 figures and potentially more.

The complainant in this UDRP is an entity called Glory Ltd. I did a Google search for “Glory Ltd” and the top result was for a company that operates on Glory-Global.com. There is also a stock call-out from Google that shows (what appears to be) a related entity that uses the Glory.co.jp ccTLD domain name. Assuming this is the Glory Ltd. that filed the UDRP, it is clear why the company would want to upgrade to the valuable Glory.com domain name, but it is not clear why this publicly traded would file a UDRP for Glory.com.

When I did a Google search for the word “glory,” the complainant

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