HTTP:: Disney and Nestle Face Domain Name Problems
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Media giant Disney and food-packager Nestle have won cases against different persons that registered domain names similar to their trademarks and used them in bad faith to acquire monetary profit. The domain names are to be transferred as soon as possible to the complainants. Disney, the largest entertainment company in the world, filed a complaint with the National Arbitration Forum to change possession rights for five domain names that were registered after three of its trademarks: Little Mermaid, Hannah Montana and Mary Poppins. The five domain names disputed were: marypoppinsonbroadway.com, marypoppinstickets.net, marypoppinstickets.org, hannahmontanaticketsonline.com, and littlemermaidticketsny.com. The first two domain names didn't do that much harm, since they redirected to the official Disney on Broadway page, but the last three redirected to a page were products were being sold, illegally showing the Disney trademarks. Revenues were also being made from pay-per-!
click commercial ads. After analyzing the case, the National Arbitration Forum decided to transfer the ownership rights to Disney for all of these five domain names. Nestle, on the other hand, had its own share of domain trouble, when Shuai Nian Qing registered to his own name the nestlecareers.com domain. After fi...
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