The UDRP case regarding GreatRun.COM

 
   
 

Nova Holdings Limited, Nova International Limited, and G.R. Events Limited, of Newcastle upon Tyne, of the UK represented by Bond Dickinson LLP, the United Kingdom loses UDRP case in its attempt to unfairly grab 15 year old GreatRun.com domain name.

WIPO Panelist found Nova Holdings Limited, Nova International Limited, and G.R. Events Limited guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking.
 


The panelist found that the GreatRun.com domain name had neither been registered in bad faith nor was the greatrun.com domain name being used in bad faith.
  The WIPO Panelist stated :
 

"It is the Panel's opinion that the Disputed Domain Name is likely to have been the first domain name the Complainants would have wished to register and the fact that they chose <greatrun.org> is simply because someone else had gotten there first and obtained the ".com" domain name they wanted.."

Nova Holdings Limited, Nova International Limited, and G.R. Events Limited represented by Bond Dickinson LLP had their complaint denied by WIPO the World Intellectual Property Organisation.

The WIPO ruling on the case (Nova Holdings Limited, Nova International Limited, and G.R. Events Limited v. Manheim Equities, Inc. and Product Reports, Inc.) can be found at WIPO Case No.: D2015-0202
   
 

The panelist's concluding paragraph sums up by saying:

"In light of the correspondence between the Complainants and the Respondents, occurring both before and after the filing of this Complaint, it is clear that the present proceeding was commenced in an attempt to pressure the Respondents into releasing a legitimately held domain name consisting of descriptive terms that was acquired without the Respondents having any likelihood of knowing of the existence of the Unregistered Mark given the limited geographical area in which the Complainants operated at the time.."


  
 
 

There are news stories about the GreatRun.com domain name UDRP case on TheDomains.com "One Member UDRP Panel Finds Reverse Domain Name Hijacking On GreatRun.com".

There are numerous sources for "Reverse Domain Name Hijacking".  Amongst these are RDNH.com and HallOfShame.com (which includes a current list of those found guilty of trying to Reverse Hijack a Domain Name in which they had no legal rights. In other words they tried to bully the rightful owners into relinquishing their property and forcing these innocent parties to spend thousands to defend what they already own).

See also Does the UDRP do more harm than good? and The UDRP: A Problem at the Core of the Internet

 

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