Sunday, 18 March 2012 06:43 Domain News
An arbitrator with the National Arbitration Forum awarded the domain name Yahoo-Movies.net to Yahoo .The company submitted a complaint to the National Arbitration Forum on February 2, 2012,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 :"Respondent’s competing use of the disputed domain name shows an intent to attract, for commercial gain, Internet users to the disputed domain name by creating a likelihood of confusion with Complainant’s YAHOO! mark. "" Complainant asserts that its YAHOO! mark has become a famous trademark, and that Respondent could not have possibly registered the disputed domain name without knowledge of Complainant’s mark," Yahoo! added .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 .
