UDRP $65,000 legal fees awarded in reverse domain name hijacking case

[News]

A federal district court judge has ordered two men to pay close to $65,000 in attorneys fees after filing a lawsuit over the domain name BeautifulPeople.com and other related domains.

In 2015 Beautiful People Magazine, Inc filed a UDRP against the domain names even though their claimed rights to the name postdated the domains’ registration dates...

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[Constantin S]

"The court dismissed the case citing the registrations dates coming before the trademarks."

Even if the domain would've been registered after the trademark was filled, that should not have been enough to win a generic domain such as: BeautifulPeople.com.

 

[xynames]

https://www.namepros.com/threads/ow...business-with-same-name.1048004/#post-6416891

 

[creataweb]