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Domain Name

The Domain Name identifies the URL of a website and the most basic function was to identify internet resource with a text rather than numeral, which are hard to memorize. The first .COM domain name was symbolics.com, which was registered on 15 March 1985 by Symbolics Inc., computer systems firm in based at Massachusetts.

A Domain Name can be registered from various Domain Registrars, which are accredited by ICANN as to gTLDs or by country specific registries like .IN Registry. Some of the famous Domain Registrars are Godaddy, BigRock, Bruwink (where this domain is registered) and so on.

While the main growth could be seen for the Domain Names between 1995-1999. But while there was no such regulations for Domain Names like UDRP, many initial sales like MTV.com, McDonalds.com violated Trademark of famous brands and the Domain names had to be bought by company owners for millions of dollars, which was also referred as Cybersquatting.

Cybersquatting (also known as domain squatting), according to the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA of 1999), is registering, trafficking in, or using an Internet domain name with bad faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else. The cybersquatter then offers to sell the domain to the person or company who owns a trademark contained within the name at an inflated price.

Therefore, in 1999, UDRP Policy came into existence, soon followed by INDRP policy in 2005 to protect the interests of Trademark owners and provide for conditions under which a Trademark owner can approach WIPO for transfer of a Domain name to it’s rightful owner.

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KalyanJewellers.com successfully defended under UDRP before WIPO

Successfully defended UDRP matter of KalyanJewellers.com against Kalyan Jewellers India Limited. Kalyan Jewellers currently use KalyanJewellers.net, while kalyanjewellers.in already registered by another Kalyan Jewellers from Mumbai. Recently, Kalyan Jewellers also filed for DHRP for Rs 1750 crore. Undoubtedly, Kalyan Jewellers has a huge reputation in India but it has grown since 2012-13 only, while they […]

Enow.in successfully defended against Bennett Coleman & Co.

Bennett Coleman & Co., India’s Biggest Media House, filed INDRP / Domain Name Dispute over domain name Enow.in in February 2020 as they have a TV Program by similar name and similar Trademarks Now, ETNow, TimesNow, MoviesNow, RomedyNow and MirrorNow. While the Respondent Company Sarv Webs Pvt Ltd, a cloud based hosting Company was making […]

Successfully defended premium domain name NATURALS.com

CyLaw Solutions successfully defended NATURALS.com in UDRP proceedings. The Complaint was brought by Naturals India. The disputed domain name had domain registration year as 2001, while the Naturals India presence can be seen for the first time in 2007, as per Archive.org. The Complaint has been rightly denied as no Bad Faith could be proved […]

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