Case Number: NAF 2123653
Complainant: Armor Bank
Represented by: Mitchell Williams Selig Gates & Woodyard, PLLC
A rural Arkansas bank has been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking by the National Arbitration Forum for attempting to use the UDRP process to force the transfer of the domains armorbank.com and armorbank.org. Armor Bank, which has its main office in Forrest City, Arkansas, near the eastern border with Tennessee, had sought the transfer predicated upon a registered trademark it has for the mark, “Armor Bank”. However, the trademark does to precede the date of the registration of the two domains, which were originally purchased in 2013.
For his part, the respondent, Christopher Cashak, argued the accrual of common law trademark, but it was the date of the domain registration versus the registered trademark date that swayed the lone NAF panelist reviewing the case, Mr. Alan L. Limbury.
Mr. Limbury handed up a ruling of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking against Armor Bank on December 27, 2024.
Source: https://www.adrforum.com/DomainDecisions/2123653.htm