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: D2022-0451
Represented by: Ritholz Levy Fields LLP
A New York-based online clothing company, Goodlife Clothing, has been forced to accessorize itself as a reverse domain name hijacker, this comes after a single-member panel of the World Intellectual Property Organization found the parent company, GL Concepts, LLC, doing business as Goodlife, guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking in connection with their UDRP filing […]
Read More...Case Number: 1991413
Represented by: Matthew D. Stein, Pierce Atwood LLP
A financial technology firm that provides services largely to the trucking and transportation sector has been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking for trying to transfer the domain wex.com using the UDRP process. Wex, Inc., based in Portland, Maine, claimed the domain was registered in order to capitalize on a trade name it claimed […]
Read More...Case Number: 1990841
Represented by: Eran Kahana of Maslon, LLP
A Texas-based fluid management company, specializing in hydrocarbon reclamation and salt-water management, has been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking by a single-member panel of the National Arbitration Forum. EcoStream LLC, based in Southlake, Texas, had attempted to invoke a trademark right that dates to June of 2016 in order to transfer the domain […]
Read More...Case Number: 1987569
Represented by: Chad G. Clark
A Colorado company incorporated in late 2017 as Canon City Property Management, LLC has been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking by a single-member panel of the National Arbitration Forum, which found the company clearly pursued its UDRP case in bad faith after failing to purchase a domain from the owner who had registered […]
Read More...Case Number: D2022-0043
Represented by: Bartko Zankel Bunzel & Miller
The San Francisco-based law firm of Bartko Zankel Bunzel & Miller has been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking after using the UDRP process in an attempt to transfer the domain bartko.com from its owner, Jan Bartko, who registered the domain in 1998. The firm argued Ms. Bartko had no rights in the name, […]
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.
