Edouard Tries to Wrest Control of Edouard.com from Edouard

A UDRP was filed at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) against the Edouard.com domain name. The complainant in the UDRP is listed as Edouard Lombard. This is WIPO Case D2022-2065.

Edouard.com was created in 1998 – nearly 25 years ago. The domain name does not currently resolve to an active website, and the Whois record shows “Statutory Masking Enabled” as the domain registrant due to GDPR regulations. Historical Whois records at DomainTools show the domain name was owned by a person named Edouard as recently as May of 2018 before GDPR masking of the Whois record.

Backing this up, you can see historical views of the website on Archive.org that appears to be the same Edouard. The earliest snapshot of Edouard’s website is from April of 2000 – more than 20 years ago! From what I can see, this domain name appears to have been owned by a person named Edouard for a very long time.

Edouard may not be a common name in the US, but a look at LinkedIn shows it is a pretty common first and last name. In fact, when I did a “People” search at LinkedIn, it returned 91,000 results:

From my outside (and non-legal) perspective, it looks like a guy name Edouard is trying to wrest control of the Edouard.com domain name from someone else named Edouard who has owned it for a very long time. Of course, this won’t be confirmed until the UDRP proceeds and the registrant’s name is known. Assuming it wasn’t sold since GDPR went into place, hopefully the panelist will see that this case involves one person named Edouard who is using the UDRP to try to get Edouard.com from another person named Edouard.

Elliot Silver
Elliot Silver
About The Author: Elliot Silver is an Internet entrepreneur and publisher of DomainInvesting.com. Elliot is also the founder and President of Top Notch Domains, LLC, a company that has closed eight figures in deals. Please read the DomainInvesting.com Terms of Use page for additional information about the publisher, website comment policy, disclosures, and conflicts of interest. Reach out to Elliot: Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn

1 COMMENT

LEAVE A REPLY

Please enter your comment!
Please enter your name here

Recent Posts

Rick Schwartz Responds to Digital Citizens Alliance Report

10
Bill Hartzer wrote an article about a report issued by a group called Digital Citizens Alliance that was critical of domain investing. This is...

Sponsor our 2025 PMC Domain Industry Jersey

1
John Berryhill, my wife Karen, and I are raising funds for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute via the 2025 Pan-Mass Challenge ride in August. Together, we...

Atom.com Transfer Center Status Meanings

0
I frequently see people posting screenshots of their domain name sales on Atom. There are different messages overlaid on the images of the logo...

Escrow.com: 2025 Master of Domains

1
Escrow.com announced the winners of its 2025 Master of Domains awards. The awards are typically given out during NamesCon, but the conference isn't being...

Odyssey.com is Braden Pollock’s Largest Domain Name Sale

0
Andrew Miller from Hilco Digital Assets announced that his company oversaw the sale of Odyssey.com on behalf of Braden Pollock. According to the LinkedIn...