Below is our current list of those inducted into the Hall of Shame or found guilty of trying to Reverse Hijack a Domain Name in which they had no legal rights. In other words they tried to bully the rightful owners into relinquishing their property and forcing these innocent parties to spend thousands to defend what they already own. Since there is no Legal Penalty, we are determined to Shame these companies along with their attorneys that represent them. What can you do? Tweet, Like, Circulate! Help me, Help you!
Case Number: D2023-4104
Represented by: Gearhart Law
Patrick Schur, the Swiss businessman recently found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking, has been found guilty of a second RDNH in as many weeks, this time for his attempting to snatch a different domain name. A single member panel of the World Intellectual Property Organization found Schur had filed his most recent complaint in […]
Read More...Case Number: D2023-4098
Represented by: Gearhart Law
A Swiss businessman has been found guilty of attempting to use the UDRP process to steal the domain demoji.com, which was registered in 2012. Patrick Schur was attempting to invoke trademark rights to the mark “demoji”, which he acquired in 2019 and 2020. A sole panelist of the World Intellectual Property Organization, Luca Barbero, handed […]
Read More...Case Number: NAF 2059177
Represented by: Lowe Graham Jones PLLC
A crowdfunding business geared toward raising money for local schools and schools’ sports teams has struck out trying to use the UDRP process to force the transfer of the domain SnapMobile.com. A panel at the National Arbitration Forum found Snap! Mobile, Inc. has abused the arbitration process. The three-member panel, Douglas M. Isenberg, Martin Schwimmer, […]
Read More...Case Number: NAF 2062168
Represented by: Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP
Sleep Number Corporation, which famously sells a line of adjustable beds, has been ruled a Reverse Domain Name Hijacker by a panel of the National Arbitration Forum, after the company attempted to use the UDRP process to force the transfer of the highly-generic domain, beds.com. The three panelists, Eugene I. Low, Jeffrey J. Neuman and […]
Read More...Case Number: NAF 2065667
Represented by: Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP
A North Carolina cutlery firm has been found to have abused the UDRP process in an effort to force the transfer of the domain NattyOutdoorStore.com from its registrant, a Thailand-based company, which also sells cutlery, alleging the Thai company was selling counterfeit products using the complainant’s brand. For its part, the complainant, Micro Knives, Inc., […]
Read More...My hope is this is the last RDNH case I will ever have to write about and circulate. The reality is I will write every company and their representation every single time there is a case of RDNH. To fight back we had to create HallofShame.com to get the message across to Main Street and Main Stream. Now maybe some value based companies will think twice before flirting with this tactic and come to the bargaining table in good faith instead of being labeled forever on Hall of Shame. The net is written in ink! And now a monument has been built at a common crossroads that many more folks will see. Just like being in Times Square.
