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Browser Extension Developer Hit With RDNH Trying To Grab MetaMask.com

Case Number: D2021-3337

Complainant: Consensus Software, Inc.

Represented by: Internally represented

Consensus Software, Inc. has been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking for trying to steal the domain metamask.com from its owner. A single-member panel of the World Intellectual Property Organization handed up its ruling on December 9, 2021.

Consensus Software, which makes a browser extension called “meta mask”, has been in business since 2016, but the domain it was trying to take was registered in 2005.

Source: https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/search/text.jsp?case=D2021-3337

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