Recently, news about Tencent, Inc. acquire weixin.com through UDRP successfully caught my attention. People have been discussing and debating over this in China.
In the PDF documents on the Internet, we can get acknowledged of some information. Here I state part of them.
1. Domain name, weixin.com, is registered in 21st Nov, 2000 by Haishen Yang. After several changes, in 2015, the domain name holder becomes Li Ming.
2. Tencent, Inc.’s platform，微信(Wechat in English, weixin in Pinyin), got the trademark “weixin” in 25th Oct, 2011. For all the time being, wechat uses the domain name weixin.qq.com.
3. Weixin.com is built into a weixin developer platform in which the content and wording can be easily mistaken as one of Wechat formal website.
4. In the arbitration document, experts points that “While a renewal is not considered equivalent to a ‘registration’ in the context of the objectives of the Policy, and thereby insulates a respondent who did not register a domain name in bad faith but subsequently uses it in bad faith``` ”
It is said that the Respondent bought weixin.com for CNY 30 millions. Unfortunately, Tencent, Inc. gets it totally for free!
We are not sure whether things will change or not in the near future. I have seen a lot of people supporting the Respondent, the domain name holder, li ming, some stand by Tencent.
What’s your idea on this? Why not write down your idea and who do you support?
In the PDF documents on the Internet, we can get acknowledged of some information. Here I state part of them.
1. Domain name, weixin.com, is registered in 21st Nov, 2000 by Haishen Yang. After several changes, in 2015, the domain name holder becomes Li Ming.
2. Tencent, Inc.’s platform，微信(Wechat in English, weixin in Pinyin), got the trademark “weixin” in 25th Oct, 2011. For all the time being, wechat uses the domain name weixin.qq.com.
3. Weixin.com is built into a weixin developer platform in which the content and wording can be easily mistaken as one of Wechat formal website.
4. In the arbitration document, experts points that “While a renewal is not considered equivalent to a ‘registration’ in the context of the objectives of the Policy, and thereby insulates a respondent who did not register a domain name in bad faith but subsequently uses it in bad faith``` ”
It is said that the Respondent bought weixin.com for CNY 30 millions. Unfortunately, Tencent, Inc. gets it totally for free!
We are not sure whether things will change or not in the near future. I have seen a lot of people supporting the Respondent, the domain name holder, li ming, some stand by Tencent.
What’s your idea on this? Why not write down your idea and who do you support?
