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.

 

[Igor Gabrielan]

If it had not been a Canadian commission, and it had not been blinded and engaged by the Shopify's money, there would have been an honest dispute, besides, I had free time, I have no doubt that I would have defeated a pack of mongrels myself.

 

[Igor Gabrielan]

If the dispute still takes place, and despite the money, influence, and Canadian connections of Shopify, I win the dispute, the administrator of Anguilla will return my name. I am sure that now Shopify itself will not want a dispute, since even though it has hired a bunch of mutts, it feels its wrong and will do its best to avoid a dispute.
Let them drown in this wrongly obtained name.

 

[Altetra]

If something post updates, I will make sure to harm their reputation, cause I hate how all this s*** websites copy my round corners designs.

 

[Igor Gabrielan]

So I challenge Shopify.
Will they decide on an honest dispute in a neutral country, and not in Canada?
So that their CEO came to an honest dispute, without a bunch of corrupt lawyers and bureaucrats?
If not, then, as Marsk wrote, these are bourgeois trembling for their skin.

 

[Igor Gabrielan]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1628865182318354433

 

[Igor Gabrielan]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1628866259650486273

 

[Igor Gabrielan]

Similar disputes should be held in a neutral country, and the commission should be chosen randomly immediately before the hearing so that a rich company does not have time to bribe the commission. Fighting with a fed-up commission in Canada is really pointless. It is indicative that the company also won a previous similar competition in Canada.
In Ukrainian courts, the judge is determined randomly. It is absurd that in domain disputes it is possible to choose the same pocket commission.

 

[Mize]

Hi Shopify.com,

Maybe this domain conflict can turn into something good?

Can you put a banner at the top to your website asking Putin to please stop killing people? Maybe you can get it to go viral and help end the war.

Thank you!

 

[jberryhill]

Similar disputes should be held in a neutral country, and the commission should be chosen randomly immediately before the hearing so that a rich company does not have time to bribe the commission. Fighting with a fed-up commission in Canada is really pointless. It is indicative that the company also won a previous similar competition in Canada.
In Ukrainian courts, the judge is determined randomly. It is absurd that in domain disputes it is possible to choose the same pocket commission.

This is just silliness. There are a couple of accredited UDRP providers:

WIPO - an international organization in Switzerland

NAF - a private company in the US

ADNDRC - a Chinese company with offices in Beijing, Singapore and Seoul

CIIDRC - a Canadian arbitration company

and a minor Arabic one in a country I don't remember for a moment.

The CIIDRC's domain name program is run by Ms. Ina Ergasheva. That is a more popular surname in Ukraine than in Canada, if that matters to you:

https://forebears.io/surnames/ergasheva

...but that is really beside the point, since she's not deciding the cases either.

If you think your chances would be any better you are kidding yourself, since over the years, Shopify has filed disputes with most of the UDRP providers since 2017:

Domain	Case	Date	Decision
shopify.cloud	WIPO D2017-1205	2017-08-11	Transfer
shopify.link	NAF 1886309	2020-03-30	Transferred
shopify.media	NAF 1899794	2020-07-13	Transferred
shopifychat.com	NAF 1913150	2020-10-23	Transferred
shopify-service.com	NAF 1915906	2020-11-16	Transferred
helpshopify.com	NAF 1916861	2020-11-23	Transferred
shopifyinbox.com	NAF 1929992	2021-02-23	Transferred
shopify-vn.com	NAF 1935553	2021-04-05	Transferred
shopifyacademy.com	NAF 1949281	2021-07-09	Transferred
shopifybrand.com	NAF 1987533	2022-04-11	Transferred
shopifyshop.com	NAF 1989162	2022-04-18	Transferred
shopifydevelopment.com	CIIDRC 17316	2022-04-27	Transferred
shopifyw.com	NAF 1989778	2022-04-28	Transferred
shopify-koshiki.com	CIIDRC 17318	2022-05-02	Transferred
shopifydeveloper.com	CIIDRC 17317	2022-05-04	Transferred

shopifyfx.com	NAF 1995195	2022-06-06	Transferred
expertshopify.com	CIIDRC 17459	2022-06-21	Transferred
shopifynfts.com	CIIDRC 18526	2022-11-14	Transferred
shopifyappstore.com	CIIDRC 18527	2022-11-15	Transferred
shopifycheckout.com	CIIDRC 18531	2022-11-17	transferred
shopifythemes.com	CIIDRC 18530	2022-11-17	transferred
shopifyjobs.com	CIIDRC 18529	2022-11-17	transferred
shopifycareers.com	CIIDRC 18528	2022-11-17	Transferred
shopifynft.com	CIIDRC 18535	2022-11-18	transferred
shopifylogin.com	CIIDRC 18533	2022-11-18	transferred
shopifyfulfillment.com	CIIDRC 18532	2022-11-18	transferred
shopify.one	CIIDRC 18542	2022-12-13	transferred
shopifyau.com	CIIDRC 18540	2022-12-23	Transfered
shopify-br.com	CIIDRC 18541	2022-12-23	Transfered
shopifysg.com	CIIDRC 18543	2023-01-10	transferred

Nobody had to bribe anyone for those results, from UDRP providers in three different countries and panelists from around the world, for the reasons I posted above. It looks like they started at WIPO, found out the fees at NAF are cheaper, and then moved to CIIDRC after a recent fee decrease there.

It's obvious cybersquatting on a well-known trademark that consists of a made-up word. The arguments otherwise are exactly the kinds of dumb excuses that make domainers look like they don't know what they are talking about.

No, it doesn't take bribery or a team of expensive lawyers to file the same template-based UDRP complaint thirty times. They just make some minor changes to the same document, pay less than $1500 in fees and get the same result each time because it's a well-known trademark that consists of a made-up word.

It's not some global conspiracy at work. It's just your fragile ego which can't handle some very obvious facts you don't like.

By the way, I received another RDNH decision defending a domain registrant yesterday:

https://domainnamewire.com/2023/02/23/iloveart-com-dispute-leads-to-reverse-domain-hijacking/

...so feel free to accuse me of being biased or paid off.

But it is exactly nonsense like this which makes it more difficult to defend legitimate domain registrants.

 

[Igor Gabrielan]

This is a Russian surname.
Although not required.
In the USSR, many changed their surname in such a way that it became similar to Russian.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shohjahon_Ergashev

For example, I could change my last name to Gabrielov.
https://www.math.purdue.edu/~gabriea

If it turned out that I registered a trademark "Shopify" for cookies in Ukraine in 2000, would I be able to take the name shopify.com away from Shopify? Of course not, because they have a lot of money and they can buy lawyers and officials.

The right bends under the rich.

 

[Igor Gabrielan]

A lawyer is often a transmission link for a bribe to an official, as reflected in the film

Wild Tales​

You yourself showed how the decision pipeline by shopify names works.

 

[Igor Gabrielan]

I believe that a person's Right to Internet access includes the right to register a domain name.
And this human right should not be violated by the machinations of rich companies.

 

[Mize]

But it is exactly nonsense like this which makes it more difficult to defend legitimate domain registrants.

For domains in general:

Can't we figure out a question or two that the complainant needs to answer that could put a halt to process?

Would need to be questions that are not already being asked.

If these two questions below are not the correct way...then what?

1) If the complainant never existed, is it reasonable to believe that the domain has value to at least one other party?

2) Complainant, can you think of a good or service that someone could label as your trademark and not infringe on your current trademark?

 

[Igor Gabrielan]

Lawyers, even when not employed by a rich company, subconsciously smell money and think in favor of the rich company.

 

[jberryhill]

This is a Russian surname.

Why don't you look at the link I sent. That surname is most common in Uzbekistan. The next places where it is most common are Ukraine, and then Russia third.

Of course not, because they have a lot of money

Gosh, Igor, why do you think they have a lot of money?

Oh, here's a guess... Because they started a business many years before the domain name was registered. That business became very successful and well known around the world as Shopify. Yes, that is certainly part of what goes into whether or not a mark is famous and well known. Duh.

And what were you doing with the domain name? Collecting donations for the poor and oppressed people around the world, to spread peace and love?

So, tell me something, Igor...

Do you think the government of Turkey has a lot of money?

Then why did they lose a domain name dispute to a small business in Virginia:

https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/search/text.jsp?case=D2021-1949

Do you think the international consulting firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers has a lot of money?

Then why did they lose a domain name dispute to an individual running a business in Hong Kong:

https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisions/html/2002/d2002-0087.html

Do you think one of the largest commercial property developers in Dubai has a lot of money?

Then why did they lose a domain dispute to an individual in Ohio?

https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/search/text.jsp?case=D2021-0591

Do you think Cambridge University has a lot of money?

Then why did they lose a domain dispute to an individual in Boston:

https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/search/text.jsp?case=D2015-1278

Do you think MasterCard has a lot of money?

Then why did they lose TWO domain disputes to a small business in California:

https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/search/text.jsp?case=D2011-2310
https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/search/text.jsp?case=D2011-2310

Do you think Visa International has a lot of money?

Then why did they lose a domain dispute to an individual from Canada:

https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/search/text.jsp?case=D2010-1531

Do you think the government of France has a lot of money?

Then why did I beat them not once, not twice, but THREE times in the UDRP:

https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/search/text.jsp?case=D2010-1531
https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisions/html/2009/d2009-1279.html

Do you think Martha Stewart has a lot of money?

Beat her too:

https://www.adrforum.com/domaindecisions/1259275.htm

Do you think the South African national gold mining company, Rand Refinery, has a lot of money?

Then how did I beat them too:

https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisions/html/2001/d2001-0233.html

Do you think that Daimler, the owner of Mercedes and Chrysler has a lot of money?

Then why did they lose to an individual in Georgia:

https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisions/html/2008/d2008-1712.html

Click on each one of those and look at who was working for the side with less money. I defended every one of those domain disputes against companies and governments who are worth billions, and mostly on behalf of individuals who didn't have very much at all.

But along comes the know-it-all who says this:

Lawyers, even when not employed by a rich company, subconsciously smell money and think in favor of the rich company.

Oh, right, I'm biased. You're the guy thinking you are going to sell a "shopify" domain name, and you're the objective one here. What a joke.

Yep, it's all rigged and corrupt. So, you'd better get out of this business immediately, because it is obviously a waste of your genius.

 

[jberryhill]

I believe that a person's Right to Internet access includes the right to register a domain name.
And this human right should not be violated by the machinations of rich companies.

I believe my farts smell like roses, but I can't get anyone to agree with that either.

 

[Igor Gabrielan]

Maybe those who lost simply did not find a lawyer who could bribe officials.
But there are well-established pipelines, one of which you have shown.

 

[Igor Gabrielan]

ai.com

Is corruption widespread in Canada?

Canada is generally considered to have a low level of corruption compared to many other countries in the world. Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index, which ranks countries based on perceived levels of corruption, consistently ranks Canada as one of the least corrupt countries in the world. In the 2021 index, Canada ranked 11th out of 180 countries, with a score of 81 out of 100, indicating a very low level of corruption.
However, this does not mean that Canada is completely free of corruption. There have been cases of corruption involving politicians, government officials, and business executives in Canada, and efforts to combat corruption and promote transparency and accountability are ongoing. Nonetheless, compared to many other countries, corruption is not considered to be widespread in Canada.

 

[Mize]

Maybe those who lost simply did not find a lawyer who could bribe officials.
But there are well-established pipelines, one of which you have shown.

You would have to question the part of your mind that is causing to to think in extremes. Why is it doing it, etc. ...past conditioning....current war, etc.

If you had one iffy domain I can see you having a chance...but you have a bucket of bads. John is trying to help you.

 

[Future Sensors]

This thread has become ridiculous.