Tag: WIPO

Unveiling the GeniusBetterUp Domain Name: A Thrilling Saga of Trademarks, Clones, and Bad Faith!

🔍 Unraveling the GeniusBetterUp Domain Name: A thrilling saga of trademarks, clones, and bad faith! 🕵️‍♂️ Dive into this exciting case that exposes digital deception and trademark wars in the online world. 🚀 #DomainNames #BadFaith #DigitalIdentity
The Risks of Domain Squatting: Lessons from the Smartney Lawsuit

Smartney, the French bank’s subsidiary, fought against unfair domain squatting. Their victory sets a precedent for protecting trademarks online.
When the domain name containing a man and his wife’s initials expired

We will see in our current story where John McGinnis Halliday Gibson of the United Kingdom lost a domain name. Mr. Gibson had registered the domain name MoJac.com, which was an amalgamation of the names of him and his wife. However, the domain name was expired and registered by a United States based domain name…
Domain name of one of the Oldest LINUX OS impersonated

Debian is a free open-source LINUX based Operating System. It is the oldest OS that is based on the monolithic LINUX kernel and has been in operation since 1993. There is a huge number of open source applications that can be run on this OS with varying operations that include domestic, business, manufacturing, etc. The…
100th dispute resolution case of .cn and .中国 for WIPO

As of 09/09/2021 WIPO, in a post announced that it has received the 100th case for dispute resolution of TLDs .cn and .中国. Although there are numerous domain extensions under WIPO, these extensions have their own significance. .cn and .中国 are Chinese ccTLDs, and are in fact quite popular worldwide. Considering the rise of Chinese…
Maharishi lost this domain name to RDNH

As of 01/07/2021 Legal battles are often unpredictable. How much you may hunch on a side, you can never be so sure. But it can surely be termed peculiar when even the ‘Maharishi’ lose. Such has been the case with US based The Maharishi Foundation, as reported by ArchyWorldys. The Maharishi Foundation owns the brand…
Saudi Arabia’s ccTLDs join WIPO’s dispute resolution

As of 14/04/2021 Saudi Arabia’s ccTLDs have agreed to join the World Intellectual Property Organization’s domain dispute redressal procedure. A report by Lexology claimed that domain extension .sa and السعودية. have chosen WIPO as their dispute resolver. This is a big step as .sa and السعودية. are still very closed extensions. The domain names are…
50,000th Cybersquatting Case

As of 30/11/2020 World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) has registered it’s 50,000th ‘cybersquatting’ case. WIPO’s Arbitration and Mediation Centre that handles trans-country domain name disputes announced this on WIPO’s website. Cybersquatting refers to a situation that occurs when someone registers a domain name in bad faith or to gain profit from an established trademark. Cases…