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Scene LLC, dba Ookla is Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking

Case Number: FA1411001590403

Complainant: Scene LLC, dba Ookla

Represented by: Jeff Nelson of Miller Nash Graham & Dunn LLP, of Washington, USA

Claim Number: FA1411001590403

A three member National Arbitration Forum UDRP panel has finally done like Spike Lee long suggested, do the right thing and called out an attempted theft of a domain name for just what it is, in the case of SpeedTest.org

Scene LLC, d/b/a Ookla represented by Jeff Nelson of Miller Nash Graham & Dunn LLP, of Washington, USA have just been found to be guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) in the case of Speedtest.org

The domain holder, Innovation HQ, Inc. was represented by Zak Muscovitch of The Muscovitch Law Firm, Canada who finally got a decision we have long been complaining about UDRP panels not arriving at.

A Generic domain.

False representation by the Complainant to rights to the domain which they clearly did not have.

Complainant going into business years after the domain holder registered the domain and then trying to take the domain (in this case, the domain holder registered the domain name “six years before Complainant first used the SPEEDTEST mark, and four years before Complainant even existed as a going concern)”.

Continue reading at TheDomains.com

Source: http://www.thedomains.com/2015/01/09/best-reverse-domain-hijacking-udrp-decision-of-2015-speedtest-org-this-is-what-we-are-talking-about/

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