Case Number: D2014-1384
Complainant: Wallace Media Pty Ltd of Balaclava, Victoria, Australia
Represented by: Holding Redlich, Australia
WIPO Domain Name Decision: D2014-1384
Law firm ESQwire.com has scored yet another Reverse Domain Name Hijacking victory on behalf of a client.
Wallace Media Pty Ltd, which operates the cycling website CyclingTips.com.au, filed the case against the owner of CyclingTips.com. Wallace Media complained that people looking for its site often leave off the .au, leading them to the respondent’s domain name.
There were a lot of issues at play in this case, including when the respondent actually registered the domain name. Fundamentally, though, this case came down to a company adopting a highly descriptive domain name and then wanting to get common law trademark protection for it.
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Source: http://domainnamewire.com/2014/11/05/cyclingtips-com-au-guilty-reverse-domain-name-hijacking/