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British Museum Wins Domain Dispute

By on November 13, 2007 in udrp, wipo

The British Museum has won a dispute involving the domain britishmuseum.com

The Museum, which has been established for over 250 years did not have any issue in proving their rights in the name. What is interesting, however, is that the respondent attempted to claim that the UDRP was a reverse hijack.

The respondent tried to claim that they had been making legitimate use of the domain name.

For full details have a look at the WIPO decision in full.

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2 Responses to British Museum Wins Domain Dispute

  1. Stephen June 11, 2008 at 8:31 pm #

    Strange, according to Whois, the domain is still in possession of the squatters. Does Wipo not somehow transfer the domain, but just trusts that the squatter will hand it back?

  2. Michele Neylon June 11, 2008 at 8:38 pm #

    Stephen

    Normally they transfer the domain to the owner, but I don’t think it’s as instant as some people would like.

    In some cases I’ve seen the registrant update to reflect the IP / TM holder, but the DNS records haven’t moved for weeks if not months.

    What’s even odder is when the IP / TM holder requests that the domains are deleted instead of being transferred!

    Michele