…and it tried to reverse hijack another, panelist rules.
It was a bad day for Stamps.com owner Auctane LLC on the cybersquatting front.
First, it lost a dispute it filed against the owner of stamps.ai. The registrant registered the domain name in 2017 and used it for a stamp collector application.
Panelist Paddy Tam found that Stamps.com didn’t show that the registrant lacked rights or legitimate interests in the domain name. Tam noted that, while the company has a trademark for Stamps.com, it does not have one for the term “stamps” alone.
Second, it was found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in a dispute against shipstation.ai.
In that case, the domain name owner was using it for web design services. As with Stamps.ai, the panelist found that Stamps.com didn’t show that the registrant lacked rights or legitimate interests.
In finding reverse domain name hijacking, panelist Alan Limbury took issue with Stamps.com for calling out the Terms of Service on shipstation.ai. Stamps.com alleged the ToS had an address that is “obviously fake, referring to a country that does not exist: Karnataka, and that these sorts of fake addresses are common evidence of bad faith domain name registration.”
Limbury wrote:
The Panel considers this to be a knowingly false statement because Karnataka is an Indian State and Respondent’s address, set out in the Complaint, namely [number] Sobha Garnet, Bengaluru, Karnataka, 560103, India is a genuine address.
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP, represented Stamps.com in both cases.
Source: https://domainnamewire.com/
