ChinesePot.com owner can keep domain name despite not responding to UDRP

[Arpit131]

Owner of ChinesePod.com loses case against ChinesePot.com.

Language instruction service Chinesepod Limited, which uses the domain name ChinesePoD.com, has lost a UDRP against the owner of ChinesePoT.com.
It’s a case of a “typo” also being a common word.

The owner of ChinesePot.com didn’t respond to the UDRP, but ChinesePod didn’t convince a World Intellectual Property panelist of the merits of its case. Although the parked page at ChinesePot.com consists of lots of links to language instruction, ChinesePod made an amusing assertion and shot itself in the foot.
The panelist also dismissed ChinesePod’s allegation that using whois privacy is a sign of bad faith, and that the respondent knew of the complainant when it registered the domain name.

The decision of the UDRP may be found here

Source: DomainNameWire

 

[cron]

Excuse me, the last time i check the dictionary there was a huge difference between a pot & a pod.
Also chinese pod does not resemble chinese pot even in terms of physical items.
By simple analogy this case is case-less. Perhaps this is simply another hilarious way to gain publicity otherwise we have to investigate the current state of mind of whomever conceived such insolence in the first place.