AOL ,the American global Internet services and media company,has recently submitted a complaint to the National Arbitration Forum requesting the domain name mapques.com to be transferred from the respondent to the complainant.
The company owns many trademark registrations for the "Mapquest" mark with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Therefore,they contended in the complaint that the disputed domain name is confusingly similar to its trademark.
Moreover,they contended that the respondent registered and used the domain name in bad faith.
"Respondent’s disputed domain name resolves to a website promoting geographic services that compete with Complainant. Such an activity clearly disrupts Complainant’s business, as Internet users seeking Complainant’s products will be redirected to competing services."
"Respondent’s attempt to commercially profit from Internet users’ confusion as to Complainant’s affiliation with the disputed domain name constitutes 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 .
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