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... buyer of candy.com was the Web3 company Candy Digital, which expected to do good business during the NFT hype. Now candy.com is for sale again, without a concrete buyer, and Candy Digital has withdrawn to candy.io. If you go to candy.com, you will see a landing page from Hilco Digital that says: ...

The confectionery manufacturer Ferrero S.p.A., owner of the trade mark ‘Nutella’, won the domain notella.site before the WIPO without any problems. The opponent did not know what was happening to him and merely asked whether Ferrero wanted to buy the domain. Ferrero S.p.A., a leading ...

... or their registration was terminated. A distinction was made between developed domains (high-content), parked domains (low-content) and domains without a web presence (no-content). After the respective registration period had expired, the renewal rates of the three categories were examined and ...

... with the case law of the UDRP. However, this did not excuse the initiation of UDRP proceedings. The complainant had started the proceedings without being able to prove or demonstrate in any way that the opponent knew or should have known about them. This was a typical case of Plan B, an ...

... should have realized that an allegation of serious misconduct against a panel is a serious matter and that it should not be made lightly without credible evidence. What the complainant was alleging here was, in fact, merely her displeasure with the previous three-member panel's decision ...

... on September 30, 2023. Since then, Krista Papac, ICANN Complaints Officer, has held the office on an interim basis. The office itself is not without controversy. Critics question the independence of the Ombudsman, as he can be appointed and dismissed by the ICANN Board and also reports to ...

... for the deactivation of domains, as in the case of the CUII, for example, these are to be carried out by private Internet infrastructure companies without prior legal review. However, companies usually have neither the resources nor the legal authority to make such decisions; arbitrary and sometimes ...

... on the day it was founded, May 29, 2024. Even then, it would have been close. It is not unfounded to assume that the opponent, who remained without a proper name but is based in Hong Kong, had an eye on the USPTO filings and reacted to the complainant's “trademark application”. The latter, ...

... platforms such as sedo.de. Anyone who currently still has a “lease to own” via Dan.com will also be transferred to Afternic in November 2024 without a declaration to the contrary. However, anyone who is currently still in contract negotiations should hurry to avoid being disadvantaged by ...

... which she confirmed: Nearly four years after the complainant contacted the opponent anonymously about the domain, she launched a UDRP procedure without any substance, with hardly any supporting documents, bypassing the resources available on the CAC's website and through deliberate omissions, ...