The job of the attorney is not to be part of a hijacking and actually Aid and Abet. It's the job of the attorney to educate their client or fire their client. Explain the self inflicted damage that can be done to them, their company, their brand, you as an attorney and the firm you work for. HallofShame will now begin to list you as the attorney and the firm you represent. It will be a stain you cannot remove and it will be all self inflicted because you knew better!
Aid and Abet? Make no mistake, the panels today are not ignorant. The attorney is the mastermind of the hijacking as well as the driver of the car the way I see it given what we know now. You have been hired as a contract hit man so to speak but the hit is not on a person, it is on property. Your client is in the back seat directing you and paying you to help him hijack a domain name when your real job is to protect him. The moment you go along with that scheme, you are just as guilty because you know what you are doing. It is premeditated. You are just as guilty aren't you Mr. Attorney?? If not, why not? I have read the decisons and the panels have been brutal when they get lied to. When lawyers and their clients fabricate accusations and get caught doing it!
Wrong minded? Outrageous? Over the top? ok fine. I may be guilty of bad taste. How does that measure up against being found guilty of Reverse Hijacking a domain name by the govering panel? Worth the gamble of ending up here at HallofShame.com and then what? Blame me? Threaten ME!?
All I am suggesting is you better be on solid ground when you hit somebody with a WIPO or NAF action. Your choice and just remember that Your Name will be included in the fallout. It's not up to you and it is not in your control once you are found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking.
Client: Wex, Inc. ( Portland, Maine, United States )
Result: Wex, Inc. found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
Matthew D. Stein, of Pierce Atwood LLP, represented Wex, Inc., of Portland, Maine, in its effort to use the UDRP process to take the domain wex.com. A three-member panel of the National Arbitration Forum found Wex, Inc. guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on May 16, 2022.
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Result: EcoStream, LLC found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
Eran Kahana of Maslon, LLP, based in Minnsota, represented the Texas-based company, EcoStream, LLC, in its effort to take the domain ecostream.com using the UDRP process. EcoStream, LLC was found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking by a single-member panel of the National Arbitration Forum on May 9, 2022.
Read More...Client: Canon City Property Management, LLC ( Canon City, Colorado, United States )
Result: Canon City Property Management, LLC found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
Attorney Chad G. Clark represented Canon City Property Management, LLC, of Canon City, Colorado, in that company’s attempt to steal the domain canoncitypropertymanagement.com via the UDRP process. Mr. Clark submitted a UDRP on behalf of his client that attempted to use a supplemental trademark registration in the United States as part of the evidentiary package […]
Read More...Client: Bartko Zankel Bunzel & Miller ( San Francisco, California, United States )
Result: Bartko Zankel Bunzel & Miller found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
The San Francisco-based law firm of Bartko Zankel Bunzel & Miller has been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking in connection with a UDRP filing in which the company sought to transfer the domain, bartko.com, from its owner, Ms. Jan Bartko. Ms. Bartko did not respond to the UDRP filing, but a sole panelist […]
Read More...Client: Red Hat, Inc. ( Raleigh, North Carolina, United States )
Result: Red Hat, Inc. found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
Maury M. Tepper, III, of the North Carolina-based law firm of Tepper & Eyster, PLLC, represented Red Hat, Inc., of Raleigh, North Carolina, in their attempt to use the UDRP process to transfer the domain wemakefedora.org from its registrant. A single-member panel of the National Arbitration Forum found Red Hat guilty of Reverse Domain Name […]
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