Hermes International filed a complaint with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center against Te Hao of Shenzhen reclaiming two different domain names : hermespascher.com and hermessacspascher.com.
The results gave Hermes the rights to all of them .The company submitted a complaint to the WIPO Arbitration Center,asserting legal rights over the disputed domain names .
Hermes owns many trademark registrations for the "Hermes" mark all over the world.Therefore,they contended that the disputed domain name is confusingly similar to its trademark .
Moreover,they contended that the respondent registered and used the disputed domain names in bad faith :
"Respondent registered the Disputed Domain Names for the sole purpose of creating confusion with the Complainant's well-known HERMES trade mark and benefitting from this confusion by selling counterfeit Hermes bags."
The Panel ordered the two domain names to be transferred from the respondent to the complainant.
You can read the decision here .
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