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Respondent engages in the mass acquisition of two-letter and three-letter domain names.
Respondent’s business model involves the indiscriminate acquisition and use of as many such domain names as possible.
Respondent claims that “Hundreds if not thousands” of entities seek to use the “lh” mark [sic] and have offered Respondent up to $1,000,000 U.S. dollars for it.
The disputed domain name is identical to Complainant’s mark and is not generic.
Right, would like to read updates as the case moves along.
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This is very worrying.
So is there any defence at all to a negative WIPO ruling?
No appeal process?
From what i'm understanding here - it's not a good idea to offer your domains for sale?
I'm just in the process of setting up a site with all my names listed, 2 character.coms, 3 letter.coms, one word .com's, 50 CVCV.com's, etc...
Now i'm being advised a perfectly legitimate trading business is in danger of having it's assets taken away for nothing - unbelievable.
This business is hard enough without having rodents stealing from you.
I really think all domainers large and small need to put their heads and resources together to find a way to fight these sort of decisions or at least level the playing field.
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it just goes to show that you do NOT own ANY domains, they are simply rented and the landlords (wipo, icann etc) are acting on their and the big $$$$ corps own secret agendas! This industry is just getting started with such activity imho. This is just the beginning of such nefarious activity no doubt.
Food for a conspiracy theory in the making?
I don't disagree - the Snowe bill is living proof that our assets are of complete unimportance.
The LH.com decision just predicts what's headed towards us. In all essence, and if i understood everything correctly, the LH ruling is just a Snowe bill executed before the actual bill has passed, correct?
WIPO being a bit preemptive here, eh? Or to fuel the fire on the conspiracy theory - does the WIPO panel know something about the passing of the Snowe bill that we don't know?
Well I have just read the first page of this thread... they should have been given a huge payment at least for the domain, not just give it up with no compensation.
Organizations like this have been set up, yet the people running have no real idea about the domaining world. Maybe they should employ domainers, not morons who have never registered a domain in their life.
It's stupid how they can take a domain, because a company believes it belongs to them. If i claimed a company was mine, because it shared my name, where would i get? Nowhere.
There's got to be a bribe in this, in can't simply be that WIPO believe the domain is rightfully that companies, bulls**t!
I disagree that they should have been given a huge payment for the domain, as that implies there was some aspect of the wipo that remained valid.
The only legitimate result of this should have been a rejection of the hijacking attempt, plain and simple. I would certainly hope this gets reversed, and that the culprits get a humiliating, financially brutalizing WWE-styled smackdown - anything less leaves the door open for large scale sniping.
He was offered $1Million for the domain people did offer to buy the domain and 1million bucks is a fair deal.
Domains do not belong to the registrants and yes it can be taken away if abused.
If you are hoarding many lll.coms and ll.coms that is just hijacking the market IMHO.
Its called GREED
First come first serve.
So you're saying somebody who spends a lot of effort working towards earning a lot of money should have that money taken from them, because they own too much?
The thing that's interesting is they made an offer to buy it and Elequa only wanted to lease the domain out. That should be proof to the WIPO if they felt they were the rightful owner why did they offer to buy it ?
he doesn't sell. he's come on record and said before. his privilege.
i respect that. that will also help his defence. lufthansa are gonna get a rocket up their german arse lol
i have no great respect for him for his empire or anything as he's not self made, he has an incredibly rich family by all accounts, however what he invests in is his business, he's hurting no-one and he develops too, he is slowly building up sites.
btw, his buyouts of lll.biz, lll.info have raised prices for us all don't forget
although his biz investment is not looking too sexy
I don't know why he offered to lease it? Regardless, the decision has wrong written all over it. Lufthansa is entitled to Lufthansa.com, that I can understand and agree to... But LH.com?
yup, we've seen this before, normally the panel get it right when they see people have bmade approaches to buy then had a hissy fit which is what 'those dicks lufthansa the incompetent airline' (just want that indexed lol).
another sign the 'panel' are at best incompetent
this will get overturned im sure, shame all the lawyers and wipo dont get fined after, bitches
Thats right! All these prices are just fabricated due to one person owning all these domains. They are false values and can crash at any time if policy changes on how many domains a person can own.
