Google,the American public corporation has recently submitted a complaint to the National Arbitration Forum,claiming rights over googleplaces.com domain name .
Google owns many trademark registrations all over the world for the "Google" mark.Therefore,they contended that the disputed domain name is confusingly similar to tis trademark.
Moreover,they contended that the respondent registered and used the domain name in bad faith.
"Respondent’s use of the confusingly similar domain name to attract Internet users to its website that displays advertisements and third-party links to websites unrelated to Complainant, where it presumably collects click-through fees associated with those links, is evidence of 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 be transferred from the respondent to the complainant.
You can read the decision here .
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