legal Rick Schwartz Files UDRP To Protect His “Domain King” Mark

[Arpit131]

Rick Schwartz who has been known in the domain community as the “Domain King” has filed an administrative action to gain control of the domain name DomainKing.ng.

.Ng is the country code (ccTLD) for Nigeria.

Rick not only is commonly known as the Domain King inside the domain community, but has a federally registered trademark on the term “Domain King” in the United States since 2003 (which was renewed in 2013) as well as a European trademark.

DomainKing.ng is going to a full on domain name registrar site which appears to be owned by a company out of Jalandhar, India.

“I will be going after any site which is profiting off my good name and my protected trademark.”

Rick said he may file lawsuits for damages, not just UDRP’s, against companies that are using “Domain King” to profit off his trademark and good name.

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UPDATE: Domainking.ng Moved To A New Registrar After Rick Schwartz Announced UDRP

 

[domainking9999]

LOL 1st victim: ME!

 

[DnEbook]

For someone "retired" ..............seems a bit anal

 

[Noe]

Hi Rick , forget DomainKing.ng while DomainKing.rs (RS - Rick Schwartz ) is available.

 

[djum]

I doubt UDRP will be enough to get domain back, especially if Indian company was prepared and registered trademark for Domainki in Nigeria.

Some years ago Google was trying to take away google.ua from someone. They had to go to the court and spend few years and few cases (they lost couple) because that smart individual registered company and trademark with name "GO OGLE" and by Ukranian laws thats legit reasons to have domain. But with help of few bribes Google managed to get domain. We'll see what happens here.

 

[brindle123]

How dare someone step on the kings toes. Doesn't he have something better to do like spend all his money and enjoy life.

Seems like a tool.

 

[-EM-]

hallofshame.com?

 

[DOMAIN ILLUMINATI]

domainki.ng still available, although I do not recommend to register it

 

[pokainc]

it says trademarked in the US and a European Trademark.. and the case is to go after the extension which is associated to neither of those 2 places.. this would be a very interesting case..

I highly doubt the company in India who registered with the .ng extension did it to "profit" from the good reputation Rick Schwartz, but who knows.

If owning a trademark in the US & Europe enables to cover all continents, then why even bother getting a global trademark..

Anybody an International Law expert for online issues?

 

[Mr. Deleted]

domainki.ng still available, although I do not recommend to register it

I was thinking of this one when I saw .ng, kinda surprised he does not own it already.

 

[Mr. Deleted]

... the good reputation (of) Rick Schwartz...

Not sure where that rep is, other than some news articles and a blog. I admire him, but still not sure he can command a huge following in India.

 

[Kingslayer]

Another swell head who's sold a few domains thinking they are 'the king'.

You'd think he'd be embarrassed trademarking something like that, bet people who are dealing with the case are thinking 'what a egotistical *swear word*'.

 

[decades80]

Its not about the name, but the fact when you write "domain king" phrase in Google, here in Germany domainking.ng is ranking 1st spot. I believe its driving traffic from some searches of domain king TM.

 

[Mr. Deleted]

http://www.dnjournal.com/columns/cover020204.htm

 

[DOMAIN ILLUMINATI]

I was thinking of this one when I saw .ng, kinda surprised he does not own it already.

Maybe because it's not really an aesthetic domain hack ('domainki') and also it costs about $200 per year - but in case of Mr. Schwartz we can assume that this (financial) point rather isn't the reason

Nevertheless I think it will take not long time and this domain will be registered...

 

[namezest]

he doesn't have a registered trademark in Nigeria I say he loses this one.

 

[daj]

His inflated ego and the fact that he's good friends with Adam Dicker is bothersome.

 

[championshipforum]

It looks like this whole 'Domain King' ego has gone to his head.

 

[daj]

domainking.jp has been around since 2009/2010 as a domain registrar

They also have a trademark of the term "Domain King" in Japan, Philippines, Singapore, etc.

Why hasn't he filed a UDRP against them?

 

[daj]

I'm not sure why Rick would spend the time or money to go after this name. If he doesn't own the international trademark, I think he loses if the company tries to defend the name.

That's what bothers me. He has millions, says he's retired, yet he goes after this small-time company to supposedly protect his mark that he never put to good use in the first place. DomainKing.com has never been an active website (it's only even been url forwarded/masked) or linked to his other websites.

He never went after DomainKing.jp which has an active trademark of "Domain King" in Japan, Singapore, Phillipines, and Indonesia.

WTF is his point?

 

[Chris Rice]

April Fools Day?

 

[Arpit131]

UPDATE: Domainking.ng Moved To A New Registrar After Rick Schwartz Announced UDRP

Article available here

 

[Aditya321]

Lol, I own GODofdomain.com and that doesn't mean I'm god and If Mr.Rick feels he is king just because he has domainking and sold a couple good domains by luck because he was there when the .com was released, then I'm GOD who is superior to him.
Lol :p
Grow up rick.

 

[Domain Galleria]

lol...

I agree he has TM on that but Domain King isn't a common word !!?

Edit: just seen the .ng website and they added in footer,

"DomainKing™ is a trademark of Hannu Internet Corp. © 2014."

Edit 2:

Also they own co.in, .biz etc.,

Edit 3:

.ng is scam website, JMO.

What makes it look like a scam?

 

[ramkumaritrvs]

What makes it look like a scam?

They don't have original office address (showing one is fake).

They run 4 business in single address but all the business are not related to each other :P they use same phone number but they are not related !!!

I chat with REP and all his info's are wrong and not matched . I will publish if rick needed it.