AOL ,the American global Internet services and media company,has recently submitted a complaint to the National Arbitration Forum requesting that the bestmapquesteurope.com and bestmapquest.com domains to be transferred from the respondent to the complainant.
The company owns mark registrations with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the European Union Office of Harmonization for the "Mapquest" mark.Therefore,they contended in the complain that the disputed domain names are confusingly similar to its trademark.
Moreover,they contended that the respondent registered and used the disputed domain names in bad faith .
"Respondent registered the <bestmapquest.com> and <bestmapquesteurope.com> domain names, which include Complainant’s MAPQUEST mark to capitalize on the fame of Complainant’s mark and to attract Complainant’s customer base. Once Internet users are thus diverted to Respondent’s resolving websites, Respondent is presumably compensated via click-through fees."
Because the complainant managed to demonstrate all the elements needed and because the respondent failed to submit a response in this proceeding,the Panel ordered that the domain names be transferred from the respondent to the complainant .
You can read the decision here .
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