Interesting .Club UDRP: FIMO.club

[News]

A single member World Intellectual Property Organization panel has denied a UDRP filed by Staedtler Mars GmbH for the domain name FIMO.club. Staedtler Mars GmbH sells a clay called FIMO that’s apparently popular with hobbyists.

The respondent was an unauthorized distributor of the product at a different business and admits to registering a number of domain names with FIMO in them. She said she registered this domain to set up what is essentially a fan site.

She said the claim was premature because “it is conceivable that the Respondent will use the disputed domain name without seeking to unfairly profit from the goodwill attached to Complainant’s FIMO Marks, the Panel finds in the specific circumstances of this case that the Complaint was brought prematurely.”

Full Article: http://domainnamewire.com/2015/03/30/interesting-udrp-fimo-club/

 

[BostonDomainer]

Good call by the panel member and valid reasoning.

 

[ChristopherHofman]

Interesting case. I'm analyzing it at the EDC blog. As a new member I can't create links her (what a crap rule), so you have to search for European Domain Centre's blog