September 6, 2018

Thomas Wang hit with reverse domain name hijacking

The Complainant Thomas Wang of San Diego, California, United States of America, was found RDNH, in the attemp to steal yish.com in the domain arbitration under WIPO.

DomainNameWire.com wrote:

The company used various domain names including yishapp.com, yish.co, yish.app, yish.io and yish.menu. It understandably wanted Yish.com, but that domain was registered by Kevin Ham’s Vertical Axis back in 2001. Yish didn’t file for a trademark and began using the term until 2017.

The Panel, Warwick A. Rothnie, finds:

It is clear that the Complainant filed the Complaint well-knowing that the disputed domain name had been registered many years before the Complainant started his business under the name “Yish” or accrued any rights in that term.

Full decision can be found here

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