UDRP Fox.org: Aged domain name lost via the UDRP process

[News]

Last night, I saw that WIPO had posted an update regarding the Fox.org UDRP. Fox.org is a domain name registered in 1996, and I think it’s a pretty generic term. The decision was listed as “Transfer,” which meant the complainant, Fox Media LLC, had prevailed. I hoped it was an error, but unfortunately, that was not the case. The decision was published today, and Fox Media LLC won the decision and will get the Fox.org domain name barring legal intervention...

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Generic use aside, “Fox” is also a registered trademark by numerous entities and one of them filed a UDRP to get the domain, citing phishing attempts.

Whether the domain was truly used for unlawful purposes by its registrant isn’t known, as the Respondent filed no response in this case. The WIPO panel used the evidence provided by the Complainant, Fox Media LLC, to reach a decision...

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[The Durfer]

this is when fox news came on the air as a 24/7 news source. If the domain was regged before this i dont see how they can just up and take it away, unless of course it has been used in bad faith which has to be proven not a given.

 

[The Durfer]

the domain, fox.org was created on 5/18/1996. They should fight this, plus they were using as a research institute front not news media to begin with. hmmm.

 

[DealMaker1]

And justice is supposed to be blind...

 

[DealMaker1]

I am on the generic word side of things. Fox the animal was around long before Fox News or any silly licensing agency. Money has won out here, not common sense. And most likely Fox.org could be used as an educational site, not a commercial site. So the so-called judge in this case was pretty rickety with that decision. Basically saying the dictionary has no place in the world anymore.

Viva la Business!!

 

[DomainNature]

If you have money you can grab pretty any domain, I m waiting my first UDRP to show them what I can do for free to them.
P.s. I have register on purpose one Disney domain with top secret keyword, I m waiting them to challenge me.

 

[DealMaker1]

If you have money you can grab pretty any domain, I m waiting my first UDRP to show them what I can do for free to them.
P.s. I have register on purpose one Disney domain with top secret keyword, I m waiting them to challenge me.

Unless you are making money from that domain, I doubt they will come after you. Much like pirate streams who are making money from the originating pay-per-view, they only want you if you are making money from the TM domain.

If you are making no money off their name, they won't waste their time with you. And who would?

I mentioned in a different thread that be careful about regging names with ChatGPT because it is TM'd. But if you aren't making money from the domain, there will be no one coming after you. But then it actually turns into a faux type of business because you will have to find someone to buy it from you and somewhere down the road, to make money, it will have to be developed. Then once it's developed, there is real TM infringement. So best not to reg it in the first place because down the line it leads to no where. And if you found a sucker, can you really be proud of this. Just sayin ...

It will just turn into a crypto type thing where you have to find someone to buy it from you for a higher price than you paid with no tangible good or service to be gleaned from it. So many paper-hat millionaires these days that have suckered people into their affluence, and it's a shame. There is someone equally in the minus for that suckering, and you don't want to be one of those people.

In other words, it's just a dead-weight proposition.