Case Number: D2019-1210
Complainant: Mamar Group, Ltd.
Represented by: Dimitriy Chyrkin
A Canadian retailer has been hit with a ruling of attempted Reverse Domain Name Hijacking in connection with its attempt to grab the domain mamar.com. Mamar Group, Ltd., had filed a UDRP with the World Intellectual Property Organization on May 28, 2019. It took less than two months for the WIPO panel to hand up its RDNH ruling. Mamar Group, Ltd. had been operating on the domain mamar.ca.
In issuing its decision, the sole panelist on the WIPO board, David Taylor, observed that the domain name was registered more than twenty years before the complainant existed, and that the current owner, Mrs. Jello, LLC, has held the domain since 2006. Mr. Taylor also was critical of the fact Mamar Group, Ltd. filed the UDRP after its offer to purchase the domain was declined.
Both complainant and the respondent were represented by attorneys. Dimitriy Chyrkin of Ukraine represented Mamar; Mrs. Jello was represented by the firm of Greenberg & Lieberman.
Since the ruling was handed up July 24, 2019, Mamar Group, Ltd. appears to have transferred mamar.ca to a new owner and new company, based on information in the WHOIS database. The domain now resolves to a Canadian website development company, Mamar & Company. The WHOIS data were updated August 30, 2019, according to records.
Source: https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/search/text.jsp?case=D2019-1210