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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