Continental Airlines,an American airline has recently won an arbitration hearing to get wwwcontinentalair.com.The company submitted a complaint to the National Arbitration Forum ,asserting legal rights to the disputed domain name.
Continental Airlines,also the complainant in this case is the owner of multiple registrations of the "Continental Airlines" mark.Therefore,the company thinks that the disputed domain name is confusingly similar to its trademark.
Moreover,the airline company contended that the respondent registered and used in bad faith the disputed domain name .
"Respondent’s initial use of PrivacyProtect.org, a privacy service, to shield its registration information, use of Continental Airlines’ marks, and use of the disputed domain name to offer links to competing travel and airfare sites suggest that Respondent had actual knowledge of Continental Airlines’ rights in its marks when Respondent registered the wwwcontinentalair.com domain name."
Another interesting thing in this case is that the respondent,has already been the subject of six other UDRP proceedings .
However,the Panel ruled in favor of Continental Airlines and ordered the disputed domain name be transferred from the respondent to the complainant.
You can read the decision here .
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