American Automobile Association,also known as AAA has been awarded the domain name aaatravelclub.com after filling a lawsuit against Above.com .
The company filed a complaint with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center,requesting the disputed domain name to be transferred from the respondent to the complainant .
The American Automobile Association registered the "AAA" mark with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.Therefore they are accusing the respondent that they have registered a domain name confusingly similar to its trademark.
Moreover,the respondent is accused of registering and using the domain name in bad faith.
"In this case, the Respondent deliberately set out to derive pay-per-click revenue from Internet users by creating a likelihood of confusion with the Complainant’s trademark. It adopted confusingly similar domain names and used them to host pay-per-click links to third-party websites offering services in the travel sector, the Complainant’s own field of activity. "
Because the respondent failed to submit a response in this proceeding and because the complainant managed to demonstrate all the elements needed,the Panel ordered that the disputed domain name aaatravelclub.com be transferred from the respondent to the complainant.
You can read the decision here .