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: D2023-0442
Represented by: Studio Legale Antonio Gallo
An Italian company and an individual businessman have been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking by a single-member panel of the World Intellectual Property Organization for using the UDRP process to force a transfer of the domains ticketsms.com and ticketsms.net, both of which were registered by their current owner in 2009. The company, TicketSms […]
Read More...Case Number: D2022-5016
Represented by: McCandlish Lillard, P.C.
Virginia-based Dewberry Engineers, Inc., which has been in business since 1927, has been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking for trying to steal the domain jkdewberry.com from its owner, John K. Dewberry, who owns Dewberry IT. The ruling was handed up by a sole panelist of the World Intellectual Property Organization on March 13, […]
Read More...Case Number: NAF 2030007
Represented by: Matthew A. Homyk of Blank Rome LLP
Empower Media Partners, LLC, more commonly known as Empower Media Marketing, has been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking for trying to steal the domain empowermedia.com from its current owner, M. Jarrar. Jarrar is a Canadian businessman doing who responded to EMP’s UDRP by noting he has been using the ‘Empower Media’ mark since […]
Read More...Case Number: D2022-4534
Represented by: González Calvillo, S.C.
A Mexican company specializing in providing information technology infrastructure and secure data centers has been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking for attempting to use the UDRP process to hijack the domain KIO.com. The company, Sixsigma Networks Mexico, S.A. DE C.V., owns several international trademarks dating to 2001; however, the domain itself was originally […]
Read More...Case Number: D2022-4632
Represented by: Gerstaecker Verlag GmbH
A French art-supply store chain has been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking for trying to steal the domain iloveart.com from a domain investor. Le Géant des Beaux-Arts, which has stores across France, was handed the RDNH ruling by a three-member panel of the World Intellectual Property Organization on February 22, 2023.
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.
