American Airlines,a major airline of the United States submitted a complaint to the National Arbitration Forum to change possession rights for three domain names.
The three domain names are : amricanairlines.com,amerianairlines.com and americnairlines.com.
American Airlines owns many trademark registrations for the "American Airlines" mark.Therefore,they contended that the respondents registered domain names similar to its trademark and used them in bad faith to acquire monetary profit.
"Respondent is using the <amricanairlines.com>, <amerianairlines.com>, and <americnairlines.com> domain names to divert Internet users to its associated website, which displays third-party links to competing websites as well as to Complainant’s official website. In cases such as this, the Panel presumes that Respondent is collecting click-through fees and attempting to profit by creating a likelihood of confusion."
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 the three domain names to be transferred from the respondent to the complainant.
You can read the decision here .
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