Case Number: D2015-0202
Complainant: Nova Holdings Limited, Nova International Limited, and G.R. Events Limited, of Newcastle upon Tyne, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the "United Kingdom")
Represented by: Bond Dickinson LLP, the United Kingdom
WIPO Domain Name Decision: D2015-0202
Nova Holdings Limited, Nova International Limited, and G.R. Events Limited, of Newcastle upon Tyne, of the UK represented by Bond Dickinson LLP, the United Kingdom (the “Complainants”) was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on the domain name GreatRun.com
On the issue of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking the one member panel of Gabriela Kennedy found
“the evidence presented by the parties demonstrates conclusively that the Disputed Domain Name could not have been registered in bad faith by the Respondents. On the contrary, there are several indications that the Complainants were acting in bad faith, as follows:
The Panel notes that the Complainants used the Unregistered Mark in their own domain name, , which was registered in 2002.
It is the Panel’s opinion that the Disputed Domain Name is likely to have been the first domain name the Complainants would have wished to register and the fact that they chose is simply because someone else had gotten there first and obtained the “.com” domain name they wanted.
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Source: http://www.thedomains.com/2015/05/06/one-member-udrp-panel-finds-reverse-domain-name-hijacking-on-greatrun-com/