Australian swimwear company guilty of RDNH over Hottie.com

[Arpit131]

Company owns Hottie.com.au, wants Hottie.com.

Easton Corp Pty Ltd, which sells swimwear and lingerie at Hottie.com.au, has been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking over the domain name Hottie.com.

The current owner of the domain name bought it for $10,000 back in 2005. Easton Corp apparently communicated with the prior owner about buying the domain name before the current owner acquired it.

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[Kuffy]

Does the name owner get compensation in these cases? Or does he have to start a different action to recover costs?