UDRP shopify.ai

[Igor Gabrielan]

Today the company Shopify started a dispute with me regarding the name shopify.ai .
I have many excellent arguments, which I will describe later.

 

[DigiNames]

Shopify is a made up word...The company made it up and called their business that before you registered the domain. It is their trademark.

Almost all trademarks are made up words or combinations. You probably could trademark Metaversify if you want to use it for a business and claim it for own if you really want to.

I think they are going to win this one.

 

[xcloud123]

shopify will win ，shopify is not a dictionary word，you know this brand，you reg it late，

 

[Igor Gabrielan]

Shopify is a made up word...The company made it up and called their business that before you registered the domain. It is their trademark.

Almost all trademarks are made up words or combinations. You probably could trademark Metaversify if you want to use it for a business and claim it for own if you really want to.

I think they are going to win this one.

Here it is important to prove that in this name the main component is not shopify, but ai. They may have developed the word "shopify", but I developed the domain zone .ai . Before me, almost no one used this zone. There are a bunch of registered shopify names that Shopify company is not interested in, for example https://www.mydomaincontact.com/index.php?domain_name=shopify.am , but this name is of interest to them because it contains AI.

 

[Igor Gabrielan]

When Shopify was first an e-commerce platform, it was called Jaded Pixel. Shopify as we know it today was founded in Ottawa by Tobias Lütke, Daniel Weinand, and Scott Lake.

 

[Igor Gabrielan]

https://brainstation.io/magazine/a-brief-history-of-shopify

 

[Igor Gabrielan]

https://kubixmedia.co.uk/journal/the-history-of-shopify

In 2006, the platform was ready for launch. First called Jaded Pixel, the company soon adopted the name Shopify, to signify the ease of creating your own online store with its tools.

 

[Igor Gabrielan]

The domain name shopify.com has been registered on March 11, 2005.
If the company, even after its formation in 2006, was called Jaded Pixel, then it is very likely that this word was coined in 2005 by our colleague domainer, and not by the Shopify company.
I can agree that they developed this word, but their invention of this word is highly doubtful.

 

[Igor Gabrielan]

https://web.archive.org/web/20051122040303/http://shopify.com/

They seem to have started developing the website in November 2005 after all.

 

[Igor Gabrielan]

I can't believe this natural word wasn't invented by anyone (especially domainers) before 2005, but I can't prove it.

 

[Future Sensors]

I'm not so sure if it's helpful to discuss this particular case here on the forum.

 

[LucidDomains]

If you're going to sell it to them, ask for $1000, it's less than the cost of a UDRP. Good luck.

 

[Igor Gabrielan]

If you're going to sell it to them, ask for $1000, it's less than the cost of a UDRP. Good luck.

They must have already paid fifteen hundred dollars for the complaint. And of course it could be. It seems they registered the name shopify.com.ai
.

 

[Igor Gabrielan]

It is important for me to protect the independent value .ai.
.ai matter.

 

[kor]

It is important for me to protect the independent value .ai

You're free to protect anything you like. And companies have to protect their IP.

You have to come out of your dream and be prudent.

 

[Igor Gabrielan]

You're free to protect anything you like. And companies have to protect their IP.

You have to come out of your dream and be prudent.

It is not clear why the third sentence.
Does it negate the first sentence?
A company has to come out of its dream and be prudent.

 

[kor]

"shopify" trademark application date: April 6, 2006
"shopify.ai" creation date: December 15, 2017

And they have 115 active TM registrations around the world at the moment.

If this were a dictionary term, we would be discussing it from a different angle.

 

[Revisiting]

How to defend the indefensible I never know whether to admire or sympathize with those that go out on a limb with such registrations (or market purchases) There always seems to be an element of Devil may care in their justification. As if challenging the norm or acceptable is part of their personality. So OK I've lost that one, Now let me find another domain to stoke-the-fire. I'm sure that most could be quite good domainers in a normal sense. Do they just enjoy the attention. Maybe they sleep better knowing they are on somebodies radar for all the wrong reasons. Who knows.

Nothing quite like a bit of Vandalism to brighten up ones day

 

[Igor Gabrielan]

There are 269 such words in MoreWords, and 589 .ai names with the suffix "ify" have already been registered. My name metaversify.ai has become 590s, and maybe even more such names thanks to this advertisement, later I will talk about it. The ability of domainers to form words is already becoming a scientific and legal fact, just like vocabulary in dictionaries. If a word consists of a common root and a suffix, taking into account the word-forming power of domainers, it can be equated to existing words to dictionaries.

Even if the company came up with the word "shopify", Neal Stephenson
came up with the word "Metaverse", so he can now claim all the domain names that contain this word?

 

[kor]

You're still trying to warp reality, but common sense doesn't work that way.

That's why you need to wake up from your deep sleep.

 

[Igor Gabrielan]

Why is the company not fighting for the name shopify.am і shopify.vn and other similar names?

Because it is not so much the word that is important in the name as the addition of AI, that is, AI. This name collectively means "something to do with commerce and AI", not the name of this company plus AI.