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Gold Coast Tourism Corporation Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking

Case Number: D2013-1733

Complainant: Gold Coast Tourism Corporation Ltd.

Represented by: Pod Legal, Australia

WIPO Domain Name Decision: D2013-1733

Tourism group guilty of trying to hijack domain name from Digimedia.

Gold Coast Tourism Corporation Ltd. has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in a UDRP over the domain name GoldCoast.com.

The case was filed against Digimedia, which was represented by John Berryhill.

The complainant, a non-profit that promotes the Gold Cost in Australia, uses the domain name at visitgoldcoast.com.

Gold Coast Tourism alleged that Digimedia asked $1 million for the domain name, which it claimed is a “totally excessive and unreasonable payment” and that this makes the registration in bad faith.

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Source: http://domainnamewire.com/2013/11/25/gold-coast-tourism-corporation-guilty-of-reverse-domain-name-hijacking/

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