Yahoo! Inc. — Nominet D00016918

Nominet D00016918 (Mar. 2016)

Case

Nominet D00016918 (Mar. 2016)

Decision date

2016-03-07

Outcome

1 transferred

Policy

Nominet DRS

Scope

Nominet DRS; SEO/social spoofing; common-control allegations; evidentiary limits

Public attribution

User-confirmed; Nominet public decision does not identify representatives

Evidence summary

Complaint described deceptive descriptions and keyword search optimization in metadata, social-media spoofing, remote-support allegations, a disclaimer, parallel Nominet/WIPO proceedings, and alleged common ownership/management/control across similar domains.

Panel finding

Expert found the domain was registered and used abusively because it was likely to attract users through Yahoo's reputation and cause confusion; transfer was ordered. The expert separately found insufficient evidence at that time to support the alleged pattern of registering domains corresponding to well-known marks.

Qualification

Jonathan directly confirms this was his matter. The published Nominet decision does not identify representatives. It may be cited as one of Jonathan's matters based on owner confirmation, but do not state or imply that the published decision itself names him as representative.

Domains adjudicated

1 domain adjudicated: yahoohelpnumber.co.uk

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