Friday, 11 November 2011 07:07 Domain News
An arbitrator with the National Arbitration Forum awarded the domain name MyYahooNews.com to Yahoo .The company submitted a complaint to the National Arbitration Forum on September 26, 2011,asserting legal rights over the disputed domain name .
Yahoo owns many trademark registrations for the "Yahoo" mark.Therefore,it is more than obvious that the domain name is confusingly similar to its trademark.Moreover,Yahoo contended that the respondent registered and used the disputed domain name in bad faith :"Complainant contends that Respondent’s website attempts to pass itself off as the WorldSID website and purports to provide a log-in page in an effort to collect Internet users’ information. ""Complainant also contends that Respondent registered the domain name in bad faith with actual knowledge of Complainant’s rights in the YAHOO! mark because the mark is internationally famous and registered in the U.S. and elsewhere."The respondent failed to submit a response in this proceeding.The Panel ordered the disputed domain name to be transferred from the respondent to the complainant .
You can read the decision here .
