Financial firm files a “poster child” reverse domain name hijacking case

Panelist admonishes company for complaint over creditGPT.com domain. A World Intellectual Property Organization panelist has determined (pdf) that CCP3 LLC filed a case that’s a “poster child for RDNH”. The company filed the dispute over the domain name creditGPT.com CCP3 has a pending trademark with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for creditGPT. The USPTO [...]

.Com rankings: GMO surges in a banner month for .com

GMO nearly tripled its monthly registrations, and it was a good month for .com overall.  ICANN has published the latest registrar-by-registrar data for the .com namespace using official data Verisign provides to ICANN. The data is always three months in arrears; the newest data provided is for March 2026. Some observations for the latest numbers: [...]

Did this UDRP decision actually involve a trademark dispute?

Panelist orders domain transferred, but it seems like a complex trademark dispute. I write about many UDRP cases where a complaint is dismissed because it’s really a trademark dispute, not a cybersquatting dispute. Today, World Intellectual Property Organization posted a decision over bearfoot.com (pdf). It seems to me like a trademark dispute, but panelist David [...]