[ga] Failed reverse hi-jack attempt?

[Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

http://www.bizreport.com/article.php?id=1889

"Here's a nearly fool-proof way to be labeled a cybersquatter by Internet
addressing authorities: Register a domain name that sounds like someone
else's trademark, don't launch a real Web site, then offer to sell the
address to that trademark holder for a big whack of cash. 

But even a demand for $200,000 for the domain SpiritAirlines.com didn't
amount to cybersquatting in the case of the two airlines with the same name
- a case that also raised questions about the role of domain name renewals
in such disputes."

Spirit Airlines Inc. of Miramar, Fla., whose mid-sized jets visit airports
predominantly located in the eastern U.S., turned to the World Intellectual
Property Organization (WIPO) in a bid to claim that domain from an
Australian doppelganger. 

Spirit Airlines Pty Ltd. of Melbourne registered SpiritAirlines.com in 1998
after completing a business plan for a no-frills airline in Australia. But
it told an arbitrator with WIPO's Arbitration and Mediation Center that
start-up problems have kept its plans grounded. 

...

However, in dismissing the U.S. airline's complaint, arbitrator Tony
Willoughby, an intellectual property lawyer in London, England, wrote that
he also rejected the notion that domain renewals should be considered as
factors in UDRP cases. 

...

However, the Australian outfit wrote that it is "not prepared to forego
rights based on false assertions of conduct said to be in breach of the
(UDRP)." 


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