A UDRP was recently filed by the European Handball Federation for the valuable EHF.com domain name. The UDRP was filed at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). It is WIPO Case D2016-0057.
It looks like the European Handball Federation uses EuroHandball.com for its website domain name.
EHF.com is currently registered privately, and it has been
There aren’t many UDRP proceedings involving numeric domain names. I don’t know of an easy way to search for numeric domain UDRPs, so I can’t say how many have been filed, but I don’t really know of many off the top of my head.
This afternoon, I noticed a company called “Cube Limited” filed a UDRP at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) against 8 numeric domain names. The UDRP case is WIPO Case D2015-2206.
The domain names are all 6n.com domains, and include the following:
Several months ago, Stevan Lieberman, an intellectual property attorney in Washington DC, published an article about domain name theft. In the article, Stevan offered some practical advice about how to recover a domain name following a theft. The article was (and is) timely given the amount of stolen domain names I have heard about of late.
This morning, someone commented on Stevan’s article to discuss a domain name that was allegedly stolen from his GoDaddy account. Here is what the commenter had to say:
Recently, a UDRP was filed against the SIDI.com domain name. The complainant in that case is listed as Sidi Sport S.r.l. A recent update on the status of the UDRP now shows it as “Terminated.”
This morning, Jamie Zoch shared via Twitter that Sidi.com is now owned by Sidi Sport S.r.l.:
Sidi Sport S.r.l. acquires #domain name https://t.co/tFod2xs5JR from Best Web.
— Jamie Zoch (@yofie) November 16, 2015
A Whois search confirms
One of the considerations domain investors need to make when buying a domain name is the legal risk. For some domain names such as clear trademark typos, the risk is obvious and great. For others such as keyword and short acronym domain names, the risk is lower.
Regardless of the type of domain name that is owned, I think there is always some level of legal risk, and domain investors need to consider the legal risk before making a domain name purchase. They also need to consider the legal risk before making use of their domain name, as the usage could be cause problems.
Even if the chance of success is low, companies can file a UDRP pretty easily and at a relatively
It looks like another UDRP was filed on a three letter .com domain name. According to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) database, a UDRP was filed for the DKY.com domain name. The complainant in this UDRP is listed as Dumankaya Yapi Malzemeleri San. VE TiC. A.S. This is WIPO Case D2015-1757. On Saturday, I wrote about the ABG.com UDRP that was recently filed.
DKY.com appears to be owned by Frank Schilling’s Name Administration, Inc. The domain name is parked, which is a perfectly legitimate business model. Whois records show that the company has owned DKY.com since sometime between 2003 – 2005 (so likely at least ten years.)
I don’t think I have ever heard of the