Company tries to upgrade to .com through UDRP.
A FORUM UDRP panelist has found Sunwin Vibes Ltd to have tried reverse domain name hijacking.
The online gaming business uses the domain sun .win and filed the case against sunwin .com.
Unfortunately for Sunwin Vibes, the registrant of sunwin .com registered the domain name in 1999. That’s well before Sunwin Vibes existed.
Sunwin Vibes made a couple of arguments that couldn’t overcome the timeline issue.
It argued that the Respondent’s recent corporate registration for “Sunwin” was “spurious”. It noted the registration was for a completely different industry. That actually hurt the Complainant’s case, not helped it.
It also stated that multiple attempts to contact the domain owner for good-faith negotiations were ignored.
One of those attempts made the case grounds for reverse domain name hijacking.
Panelist Alan L. Limbury called attention to an email the Complainant provided in which it asked the domain owner if he’d sell the domain for $3,000.
Limbury noted this was a classic “Plan B” UDRP case, in which a company files a dispute after failing to acquire a domain name.
Sunwin Vibes was internally represented. The domain owner didn’t respond to the dispute.
Source: https://domainnamewire.com/
