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Insurance Company Loses Generic Domain Name Land Grab
Friday, June 26th, 2009
Combined Insurance Group Ltd loses two domain name arbitration cases.
Combined Insurance Group Ltd has lost two domain name battles for seemingly generic domains, CheapAutoInsurance.com and CheapAutosInsurance.com. The company claims trademark rights to âCheap Auto Insuranceâ, even though many of these trademarks and their dates of use are questionable based on evidence brought forth by the respondents.
The insurance company owns the domain name Cheap-Auto-Insurance.com. It should remind you of another case where a company with a hyphenated domain name is making a dubious case: the owner of c-a-s-i-n-o-s.org going after casinos.org.
For CheapAutoInsurance.com, the panel found that the complainant had not established a prima facie case in support of its arguments that respondent lacks rights and legitimate interests in the domain name.
The second case involves the plural version of auto, CheapAutoSinsurance.com. Combined Insurance Group Ltd claimed that this was simply a case of typosquatting, since the only difference between this domain and the trademark was the added âSâ on autos. But since the version of the domain that would be typosquatted isnât just CheapAutoInsurance.com (itâs cheap-auto-insurance.com), this is a questionable claim. In this case, the panel found that the respondent had rights or legitimate interests in the domain, and it was not registered in bad faith.
Source: http://domainnamewire.com/2009/06/26/insurance-company-loses-generic-domain-name-land-grab/
How many of you think as I do that its pretty scary that this case was even heard?
Friday, June 26th, 2009
Combined Insurance Group Ltd loses two domain name arbitration cases.
Combined Insurance Group Ltd has lost two domain name battles for seemingly generic domains, CheapAutoInsurance.com and CheapAutosInsurance.com. The company claims trademark rights to âCheap Auto Insuranceâ, even though many of these trademarks and their dates of use are questionable based on evidence brought forth by the respondents.
The insurance company owns the domain name Cheap-Auto-Insurance.com. It should remind you of another case where a company with a hyphenated domain name is making a dubious case: the owner of c-a-s-i-n-o-s.org going after casinos.org.
For CheapAutoInsurance.com, the panel found that the complainant had not established a prima facie case in support of its arguments that respondent lacks rights and legitimate interests in the domain name.
The second case involves the plural version of auto, CheapAutoSinsurance.com. Combined Insurance Group Ltd claimed that this was simply a case of typosquatting, since the only difference between this domain and the trademark was the added âSâ on autos. But since the version of the domain that would be typosquatted isnât just CheapAutoInsurance.com (itâs cheap-auto-insurance.com), this is a questionable claim. In this case, the panel found that the respondent had rights or legitimate interests in the domain, and it was not registered in bad faith.
Source: http://domainnamewire.com/2009/06/26/insurance-company-loses-generic-domain-name-land-grab/
How many of you think as I do that its pretty scary that this case was even heard?
