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: 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...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...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.
