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: NAF 2124448
Represented by: Feigin and Fridman
A single-member panel of the National Arbitration Forum has found a New Jersey-based maker of air purifiers and mold testing kits for the home, My Healthy Home, LLC, guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking after attempting to use the UDRP process to force the transfer of the domain healthyhomeexperts.net. The domain is owned by an […]
Read More...Case Number: NAF 2125098
Represented by: Hunter D. Westfahl
Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., which famously took a case to the U.S. Supreme Court, has been hit with a ruling of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking in connection with its effort to force a transfer of the domain hobbylibby.com. Hobby Lobby relied solely upon its pre-existing trademark rights, which predate the registration of the domain in […]
Read More...Case Number: CAC-UDRP-107041
Represented by: Rudolf Bicek Ph.D.
The European Union Intellectual Property Office, known commonly as the EUIPO, has been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking by the Czech Arbitration Court after attempting to use the UDRP process to force the transfer of the domain epta-agencies.com. The EUIPO, which has trademarks for its own name, as well as for the abbreviation, […]
Read More...Case Number: D2024-4418
Represented by: Wadhwa Law Chambers
An India-based manufacturer of mattresses, Wakefit Innovations Private Limited, has been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking after using the UDRP process to grab the domains wakefit.com and wake.fit. The owners of the domain also own several other variations of the domain. Specifically, however, the domain wakefit.com predates the company’s incorporation by about seven […]
Read More...Case Number: NAF 2125296
Represented by: Dennis L. Wilson of Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
Social media company Snapchat has been hit with a ruling of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking from the National Arbitration Forum after using the UDRP process in an attempt to grab the domains snapchatplanets.org and snapchatplanets.net. While the respondent in the case no longer owns snapchatplanets.net, the sole member of the NAF panel, the Honarable Neil […]
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.
