Help with Wipo email

[ArielT]

Hi,

I recently registered a .online and today I've received a WIPO email (wipo.int)

The domain is at Godaddy and I've checked the domain and I can't manage it because it has been placed in standby state

Email pasted below.

What should I do?

Thanks



Email received from Wipo:

-----.online
Notice of Registrant Information

Dear Complainant,

Further to the information provided in your Complaint, you are invited to amend the Complaint to reflect the following information received from the Registrar.

Registrant Information:

Edited:
My Information is listed hire

Accordingly, you are invited to amend your Complaint to add the newly identified registrant as a respondent.

Please note that this invitation is not a formal deficiency under the UDRP Rules, and while we strongly recommend that you amend the Complaint, you are not required to do so.

If you choose to amend your Complaint, or to submit an amended Complaint – including with further facts or arguments in light of the new registrant information – please do so by March 3, 2025.

Please note that such amendment may also impact the Mutual Jurisdiction section of the Complaint.

If you do not wish to make substantive amendments to your Complaint, but simply wish to add the above-mentioned registrar-provided registrant information to your Complaint, you may do so by an affirmative reply to this email.

If you choose not to amend the Complaint, kindly confirm this to us by March 3, 2025. Please note however that the Respondent identity determination is at the Panel's discretion upon appointment.

If we do not hear from you by March 3, 2025, we will proceed to formal Complaint Notification assuming that you chose not to amend the Complaint in light of this notice. The Center will send all communications to the registrant contact details disclosed by the Registrar to ensure proper notice is provided to the registrant.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Sincerely,

 

[jberryhill]

What has happened is that someone has filed a UDRP complaint against your domain name, because they believe your domain name was registered for the purpose of taking advantage of their trademark.

When that happens, WIPO notifies the registrar to lock the name, and obtains the registrant data from the registrar. WIPO then provides that registrant data to the complainant - in the email which was copied to you - and the complainant is invited to amend the complaint to name the registrant, and to make whatever other changes may come from knowing who is the registrant. For example, sometimes the registrant will have been the subject of other UDRP proceedings, or the registrant data provides additional information which the complainant may use to show that the registrant should have known about the trademark.

The complainant has five days to update their complaint with your information. If they do not do so, WIPO will go ahead and commence the proceeding anyway. At that time, you will receive a copy of the complaint, which will explain the reasons why the complainant believes the domain name should be transferred to you. You will have 20 days to respond, which can be extended to 24 days.

There is not much for you to do at this point. In a few days, you'll have a much clearer idea what this is about. You *could* reach out to the other side to propose a Rule 17 transfer if it is an obvious case, but you are unlikely to help yourself by communicating with anyone at this point, given that you are unfamiliar with the procedure.

 

[jberryhill]

Given that most of the pending .online UDRP cases are obviously cybersquatted names, the only "interesting" one in which it appears possible for the registrant not to know what the complaint is about is this one:

https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/search/case.jsp?case_id=75720

Case Details for WIPO Case D2025-0779
WIPO Case Summary
WIPO Case Number D2025-0779
Domain name(s) qlick.online
Complainant QlikTech International AB
Decision Case active


You may review prior cases filed by this Complainant here:

Domain	Case	Date	Decision
qlikdash.com	WIPO D2024-5123	2025-02-10	Transfer
qlikj.com	WIPO D2024-4654	2025-01-13	Transfer
netqlik.com	WIPO D2024-4798	2025-01-13	Transfer
hrqlik.com	WIPO D2024-4697	2025-01-06	Transfer
jobqlik.com	WIPO D2024-4698	2025-01-06	Transfer
qlik-sense.net	WIPO D2024-4644	2025-01-02	Transfer
qlik-israel.com	WIPO D2024-4652	2025-01-02	Transfer
qlik-aor.com	WIPO D2024-4468	2025-01-01	Transfer
qlikgame.com	WIPO D2024-4470	2024-12-05	Transfer
qliik.xyz	WIPO D2024-3552	2024-12-04	Transfer
qlik.shop	WIPO D2024-4208	2024-11-28	Transfer
qlik-property.xyz	WIPO D2024-3787	2024-11-15	Transfer
topqlik.info	WIPO D2024-3554	2024-11-11	Transfer
qlikbar.com	WIPO D2024-3663	2024-10-29	Transfer
qlik.top	WIPO D2024-3599	2024-10-16	Transfer
qlikviews.com	WIPO D2024-3555	2024-10-10	Transfer
qlik.website	WIPO D2024-2693	2024-09-27	Transfer
qlik.site	WIPO D2024-2789	2024-09-13	Transfer
qlikapp.top	WIPO D2024-2684	2024-09-05	Transfer
qlik-grow.life	WIPO D2024-2676	2024-08-23	Transfer
qlikbe.com	WIPO D2024-2759	2024-08-23	Transfer
qlik.cc	WIPO DCC2024-0018	2024-08-22	Transfer
qlik-app.cc	WIPO DCC2024-0017	2024-08-22	Transfer
qlik-be.vip	WIPO D2024-2760	2024-08-21	Transfer
qlikprint.com	WIPO D2024-2205	2024-07-31	Transfer
qlik-apps.life	WIPO D2024-2111	2024-07-24	Transfer
qwikqlik.com	WIPO D2024-2173	2024-07-17	Transfer
qlik-services.co	WIPO DCO2024-0033	2024-07-09	Transfer
qlikapps.life	WIPO D2024-1789	2024-06-27	Transfer
qlikactiveintelligence.com	WIPO D2022-0475	2022-04-20	Transfer
qlikforts.com	WIPO D2022-0474	2022-04-06	Transfer
kundqlik.com	WIPO D2022-0481	2022-04-05	Transfer
qlikview.cloud	WIPO D2022-0480	2022-03-29	Transfer
qlikcash.com	WIPO D2018-1048	2018-07-04	Transfer
qlik.tech	WIPO D2018-0582	2018-05-14	Transfer
qlikview.guru	WIPO D2014-0596	2014-07-24	Transfer
iqlik.com	NAF 1478158	2013-02-07	Transferred
qlikviewiran.com	NAF 1330404	2010-08-02	Transferred

 

[jberryhill]

If that's not it, then the other most recently filed .online disputes are :

D2025-0634	fragonard.online	Les Parfumeries Fragonard	-	Compliance Review Pending	Pending
D2025-0644	aquataliaonline.com	Vida Shoes International, Inc	-	Compliance Review Pending	Pending
D2025-0758	onlyfanstoken.online	Fenix International Limited	-	Compliance Review Pending	Pending
D2025-0759	feetfindre.online	FLRT, Inc.	-	Compliance Review Pending	Pending

Although if it was one of those names, one would expect the registrant to know perfectly well why the name was subject to a complaint.

 

[ArielT]

@jberryhill

Your answers have been very helpful!

Appreciated

Thanks!

 

[jberryhill]

...although on second glance, none of the candidate names is registered at GoDaddy. So, perhaps it is one that hasn't shown up on the pending docket yet, although by this point in the process it should have.

 

[pb]

...although on second glance, none of the candidate names is registered at GoDaddy. So, perhaps it is one that hasn't shown up on the pending docket yet, although by this point in the process it should have.

qlick (online) is registered at godaddy, and fairly recently
[edit] and the registrant's name is suspiciously similar to OP's forum name

 

[jberryhill]

Ah, I must have mis-spelled it when I checked. You are correct, that's it.

That also brings up a couple of other cases...

Domain	Case	Date	Decision
qlick.info	WIPO D2024-4010	2024-11-28	Transfer
qlick.marketing	WIPO D2024-1799	2024-06-21	Transfer

 

[Mize]

What is the shortest response to win this?

Registered b/c play on the word "click"
Multiple uses of qlick by companies not related to qlik

 

[UncleBrand]

in the WIPO email you received,
there are links to a template to dispute the claim
and they also explain the timeline to introduce a dispute

i disputed a claim against a big international business and won my case,
still i had a legitimate reason to register the domain

if you are not sure how to respond, you can find cheap attorneys at Fiverr that can defend your case for less than 200$

good luck

 

[jberryhill]

you can find cheap attorneys at Fiverr that can defend your case for less than 200$

Be sure to ask for links to all the cases they've won.

 

[kool1]

qlick (online) is registered at godaddy, and fairly recently
[edit] and the registrant's name is suspiciously similar to OP's forum name

Definitely qlick.online, name locked up:

 

[ArielT]

in the WIPO email you received,
there are links to a template to dispute the claim
and they also explain the timeline to introduce a dispute

i disputed a claim against a big international business and won my case,
still i had a legitimate reason to register the domain

if you are not sure how to respond, you can find cheap attorneys at Fiverr that can defend your case for less than 200$

good luck

Hi, I'm not interested in the domain, I registered it by mistake so I don't have to dispute the claim

So that said what should I do?

Thanks

 

[jberryhill]

If you do nothing, eventually a decision will issue and the name will be transferred. Then, in the future, if your name comes up in a dispute on one of your other names, the case will be used as part of a "pattern of cybersquatting".

One way to avoid that is to use the Rule 17 procedure which is explained in the commencement materials you received when the case commenced on March 4. A further description of that is here:

https://www.namepros.com/threads/need-help-regarding-wipo-domain-dispute.1301187/post-8911794

and here:

https://www.namepros.com/threads/template-of-wipo-dispute-when-transfer-domain.1334115/#post-9244777

However, the other side is likely to be skeptical of an unrepresented party, and complainant's counsel is often unfamiliar with how the Rule 17 procedure works, that is why it can be worth considering hiring help for this relatively low cost and simple procedure.

Sometimes, if a "Response" consists of a consent to transfer, the panel will issue a decision that looks like this:

https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisions/text/2016/dro2016-0013.html

...but not always. Particularly if the complainant's attorney has an ego problem which requires them to feel like they have "won" something.

 

[ArielT]

If you do nothing, eventually a decision will issue and the name will be transferred. Then, in the future, if your name comes up in a dispute on one of your other names, the case will be used as part of a "pattern of cybersquatting".

One way to avoid that is to use the Rule 17 procedure which is explained in the commencement materials you received when the case commenced on March 4. A further description of that is here:

https://www.namepros.com/threads/need-help-regarding-wipo-domain-dispute.1301187/post-8911794

and here:

https://www.namepros.com/threads/template-of-wipo-dispute-when-transfer-domain.1334115/#post-9244777

However, the other side is likely to be skeptical of an unrepresented party, and complainant's counsel is often unfamiliar with how the Rule 17 procedure works, that is why it can be worth considering hiring help for this relatively low cost and simple procedure.

Sometimes, if a "Response" consists of a consent to transfer, the panel will issue a decision that looks like this:

https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisions/text/2016/dro2016-0013.html

...but not always. Particularly if the complainant's attorney has an ego problem which requires them to feel like they have "won" something.

Hi,

I've checked and found what it seems to be that 17 form

I see there are 4 fields that can be filled, I've numbered them as 1, 2 , 3 and 4 in the screenshot

I'm not sure if 1 and/or 2 should be filled by me or the other party

And I guess in 3 and 4 are for signatures? if that's the case, Is it valid type in or only by hand?

Once filled should I send it to the same email I reaceived it?

I'm considering if It would be worth it to send it in comparison with doing nothing

A help would be very appreciated again


Thanks

 

[jberryhill]

If you do not want to hire someone to help you, the good news is that the other side has already hired some lawyers. So, perhaps if you explain what you want to do, then if they would like to use this procedure, they can fill out the form, and obtain whatever other agreement they might want. Typically, they will want to know if you have other domain names with the mark, and they will want you to promise not to register any others.

 

[ArielT]

If you do not want to hire someone to help you, the good news is that the other side has already hired some lawyers. So, perhaps if you explain what you want to do, then if they would like to use this procedure, they can fill out the form, and obtain whatever other agreement they might want. Typically, they will want to know if you have other domain names with the mark, and they will want you to promise not to register any others.

Ok,

Very appreciated.

Thanks!