A UDRP has been filed against the valuable three letter EDP.com domain name.
The complainant in this UDRP is a company called EDP – Energias de Portugal, S.A.
Whois records show that the domain name is currently owned by a registrant in China. When I attempted to visit EDP.com, the domain name did not resolve for me. I looked at Archive.org, and I do not see any archived records since 2014.
I did a Historical Whois search at DomainTools, and here is where it gets a bit interesting. According to aDomainTools historical Whois record from September of 2014, the registrant of the domain name at that time is listed as EDP – ENERGIAS DE PORTUGAL, S.A. This matches the name of the company that filed the UDRP. I believe this company uses the EDP.pt ccTLD for its website.
Out of curiosity, I checked my email records to see if the domain name was ever listed for sale by any brokers, and I do not see anything in my email that would indicate it was marketed for sale. I also checked NameBio, and I do not see any public sales records.
Due to the provenance of this domain name, I would not be surprised to learn that this was either a stolen domain name or someone without authorization sold or transferred the domain name. I don’t really see why a company that once owned a domain name would file a UDRP on that particular domain name, especially when the domain name does not appear to be used right now.
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The complainant in this UDRP is a company called EDP – Energias de Portugal, S.A.
Whois records show that the domain name is currently owned by a registrant in China. When I attempted to visit EDP.com, the domain name did not resolve for me. I looked at Archive.org, and I do not see any archived records since 2014.
I did a Historical Whois search at DomainTools, and here is where it gets a bit interesting. According to aDomainTools historical Whois record from September of 2014, the registrant of the domain name at that time is listed as EDP – ENERGIAS DE PORTUGAL, S.A. This matches the name of the company that filed the UDRP. I believe this company uses the EDP.pt ccTLD for its website.
Out of curiosity, I checked my email records to see if the domain name was ever listed for sale by any brokers, and I do not see anything in my email that would indicate it was marketed for sale. I also checked NameBio, and I do not see any public sales records.
Due to the provenance of this domain name, I would not be surprised to learn that this was either a stolen domain name or someone without authorization sold or transferred the domain name. I don’t really see why a company that once owned a domain name would file a UDRP on that particular domain name, especially when the domain name does not appear to be used right now.
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