AOL ,the American global Internet services and media company,has recently submitted a complaint to the National Arbitration Forum requesting the domain name apquest.com to be transferred from the respondent to the complainant.
The company owns several trademark registrations with the United States Patent and Trademark Office fo the "Mapquest.com" mark.
Therefore,they contended in the complaint that the domain name is confusingly similar to its trademark.
Moreover,they contended that the respondent registered and used the domain name in bad faith .
"Respondent is using the <apquest.com> domain name to resolve to a website featuring hyperlinks to third-parties that offer competing Internet, wireless, and business mapping applications. Internet users that would have used Complainant’s services may instead find a competitor of Complainant because of Respondent’s confusingly similar disputed domain name. The Panel finds this use of a disputed domain name that is confusingly similar to Complainant’s MAPQUEST.COM mark, constitutes disruption and evidences bad faith registration and use."
Because the respondent failed to submit a response in this proceeding and because the complainant managed to demonstrate all the elements needed,the Panel decided the disputed domain name to be transferred from the respondent to the complainant.
You can see the decision here .