Case Number: D2021-3114
Complainant: Nextbite Brands LLC
Represented by: Novian & Novian LLP
A U.S.-based company that supplies online ordering services for restaurants and diners has been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking after using a UDRP filing to force a transfer of the domain nextbite.com. A single-member panel of the World Intellectual Property Organization found Nextbite Brands LLC guilty of RDNH for trying to use the administrative process to take the domain from a small Kuwaiti company, also called Nextbite, which has been in business since 2016. The U.S.-based Nextbite did not adopt its current name until early 2019.
Panelist Nick J. Gardner handed up a ruling of RDNH against the U.S. company on December 10, 2021.
Source: https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/search/text.jsp?case=D2021-3114