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UDRP 2025 UDRP Defense Year in Review

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I don't usually keep stats on my work, but since I posted a "year end review" last year, I figured I'd do one for this year too. This was 2024: https://www.namepros.com/threads/my-year-end-udrp-roundup.1340191/

There's an outside chance that one of the pending cases I'm defending might reach a decision before the end of the year, but since it's that time of year when everyone does their year-end wrap-up, I'll update if necessary.

I had a few more UDRP defenses than last year, and they went relatively well. There was one case that was an agreed transfer, so it wasn't really a "defense" in any real sense, but here's how they shook out. I thought November was a crazy month with four decisions issued this month (they issue a couple of weeks after the work is done), but I didn't realize I had five decisions in July, and still averaged two a month. The ones marked in bold were RDNH decisions:

DomainCaseDateDecision
tarotap.comNAF 21863862025-12-12Claim Denied
gabler.comCAC 1079212025-12-10Rejected
rams.comWIPO D2025-37612025-12-04Complaint denied
nexim.com WIPO D2025-36272025-12-01Complaint denied
upscaleavenues.com WIPO D2025-41742025-11-24Complaint denied
augment.ai NAF 21776282025-11-10Claim Denied
snep.com WIPO D2025-35972025-11-05Complaint denied
jiggle.com WIPO D2025-36082025-09-29Complaint denied
concreted.com WIPO D2025-33302025-09-24Complaint denied
oniric.comCAC 1077912025-08-28Rejected
colbun.comWIPO D2025-19432025-08-25Complaint denied
topaz.com WIPO D2025-24592025-07-28Complaint denied
maxion.comWIPO D2025-18742025-07-25Complaint denied
ola.com WIPO D2025-19892025-07-22Complaint denied
voices.aiNAF 21578052025-07-17Claim Denied
peet.com WIPO D2025-18472025-07-15Complaint denied
finlay.comWIPO D2025-17622025-06-25Complaint denied
divebuddyapp.comWIPO D2025-20832025-06-24Complaint denied
tm7.com WIPO D2025-12602025-06-10Complaint denied
clio.aiNAF 21392182025-05-08Claim Denied
seattlefoodtrucks.org WIPO D2025-09402025-04-08Complaint denied
serramar.comWIPO D2024-53132025-02-24Complaint denied
gopa.comWIPO D2024-50082025-02-19Complaint denied
cripto.comWIPO D2024-47042025-01-21Terminated by Panel (order published)

I pulled these from UDRP.tools, so it might be incomplete. Once in a while the data tagging is off.

Out of this year's batch, a couple stand out as having been a lot of fun. In Concreted.com, the complainant was represented by a "brand protection agency" called Marqvision which relied heavily on AI for their filings. That was a portent of things to come in Nexim.com and UpscaleAvenues.com, which were both done by people who figured AI could win their case. All I have to say is that I hope more people start using AI for these things, because I really do love pointing out when it goes off the rails.

I enjoyed working with @Igor Gabrielan on Voices.ai. That one was interesting and had some unique issues.

Rams.com was interesting. It's not everyday you get to go up against a professional football team, although the Complainant in Cripto.com has a stadium named after them. So those two cases are sort of bookends to the year.

Anyway, there might be one more to drop, and I'll update if so.
 
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Ah, I didn't remember doing one in 2023. I might post a few of the chuckles from this year's batch. Sometimes they make it into the decision, such as in Tarotap.com, which involved competing tarot reading systems:

https://www.adrforum.com/DomainDecisions/2186386.htm?utm_source=namepros.com

Respondent alleges further that Complainant "is attempting something of a card trick to 'backdate' its more recent online AI chat service by conflating it with downloadable software for which the US trademark registration was obtained."
 
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Bravo. Thank you for sharing.

I wonder what percentage have/will circle back an buy the domain in question.
 
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I wonder what percentage have/will circle back an buy the domain in question.


Over the course of 25 years of doing these things, one of the most surprising things to me is how low that percentage is.

Once in a while, I will take a case at a very low fee in exchange for a commission on an eventual sale/settlement, but I found out that is a great way to go broke.

Of course it is also sometimes true that the domain registrant has an impressively optimistic idea of what the domain name is worth, so the conversation does not proceed very far.
 
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Disney(wicked-doll fiasco), and Dicks Sporting Goods, both learned the hard way it's best to own it.

Heaven forbid some adult content provider buys Rams.
 
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