Client: Hot Pancakes Ltd. ( Bahamas )
Result: Hot Pancakes Ltd. found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
Reference: https://www.adrforum.com/DomainDecisions/1972226.htm
R. Omar Riojas, of the Washington state-based Goldfarb & Huck Roth Riojas, represented Hot Pancakes Ltd. in its effort to transfer seven domain names from their current registrant. A series of complex legal proceedings impelled the panel of the National Arbitration Forum to decline transfer of five of the domains; however, it ruled two of the domains, shadebooks.com and harleymerlin.com, bore no similarity of any kind to any trademark owned by the complainant, and ruled the company guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking with respect to those two domains. The ruling was handed up December 30, 2021.