An arbitrator with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center has awarded Dolce-e-Gabbana.com domain name to Dolce & Gabbana .The company filed a complaint with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center on October 17,2011,asserting legal right over the disputed domain name.
Dolce & Gabbana owns many trademark registration for the "Dolce&Gabbana" mark all over the world.Therefore,it is more than obvious that the disputed domain name is confusingly similar to its trademark.Moreover,the company contended that the respondent registered and used the disputed domain name in bad faith :"Considering that the disputed domain name is used to sell copies of the same products for which the trademarks are registered (in particular, it appears that the Respondent was selling Complainant’s woman’s handbags) and in the absence of contrary evidence, the Panel finds that the Respondent registered and used the disputed domain name in order to attract, for commercial gain, Internet users to the Respondent’s website by creating a likelihood of confusion with the Complainant’s trademark as to the source, sponsorship, affiliation, or endorsement of the websites or of a product or service on the website."
The Panel ordered the disputed domain name to be transferred from the respondent to the complainant.
You can read the decision here .