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Complainant: TV Sundram Iyengar and Sons Limited of Madurai of India
Represented by: DePenning & DePenning
TV Sundram Iyengar and Sons Limited of Madurai of India represented by DePenning & DePenning, just lost its attempt to grab the 17 year old domain name TVS.com
The domain owner P.A. Gordon was represented by ESQwire.com which won its second UDRP of the day, Congrats to Ari and Jason.
The panel had a very good discussion of latches and while the decision did not rest on latches the delay in 17 years was not something the panel could ignore.
The panel spent quite a bit of time discussing the issue of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking and while the ultimately did not make such a finding, the panel did criticize quite harshly the Complainant for the “repeated assertions in the Complaint, seemingly without any evidentiary basis, that the Respondent is engaging in illegal behaviour or attempting to commit fraud. This language is unnecessary and not condoned by the Panel.”
In other words the Complainant make statements about the domain holder which were simply untrue.
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* Being found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) is not the only way to be inducted into the Hall of Shame. Any premeditated shameful behavior will make you or your company a nominee.
Source: http://www.thedomains.com/2014/08/18/17-year-old-tvs-com-saved-in-udrp-against-4-billion-company-thats-going-into-domain-hall-of-shame/