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: 1980642
Represented by: Maury M. Tepper, III
Red Hat, Inc., which website operators will know as the maker of Linux-based operating systems and software, has been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking after trying to use the UDRP process to take the domain wemakefedora.org from a Swiss open-source software organization. A single-member panel of the National Arbitration Forum found Red Hat […]
Read More...Case Number: D2021-4277
Represented by: Margareto IP
A Spanish company and its affiliate enterprise, filing as joint-complainants, have been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking for trying to use the UDRP process to grab the domain bookker.com. The parent company, Bookker Corporate S.L.U., and its affiliate, The Graffter S.L., were found to have used the UDRP process as a “Plan B” […]
Read More...Case Number: 1981434
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Vacation Pig, LLC, which does business as OOVO, LLC, marketing a product known as the OOVO Straw, has been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking for trying to grab the domain oovo.com from its current owner, who acquired the domain six years prior to the company’s first trademark registrations. A single-member panel of the […]
Read More...Case Number: 1973863
Represented by: Shawn M. Lindsay
A three-member panel of the National Arbitration Forum has found Indoor Billboard/Northwest, Inc., guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking for attempted to use a UDRP complaint to transfer teh domain indoorbillboards.com from its owner. The company, which is based in Portland, Oregon, and operates from the domain indoor.com, had claimed in its filing that it […]
Read More...Case Number: D2021-3776
Represented by: Bobadilla Law Firm
A Virginia Gardens, Florida company has been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking by a single-member panel of the World Intellectual Property Organization for trying to use a UDRP to steal the domain byfy.com from its current owner, claiming a new trademark registration, granted in late 2021, gave the company rights in a domain […]
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.
