Hermes International,the well known French high fashion house has recently won Hermes.net domain name through arbitration .
The fashion house submitted a complaint with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center,asserting legal rights over the disputed domain name .
Hermes owns numerous trademark registration for the "Hermes" mark all over the world.Therefore,the company contended that the disputed domain name is confusingly similar to its trademark.Moreover,they contended that the respondent registered and used the disputed domain name in bad faith.
"Today, the disputed domain name does no longer resolve to the website publishing third party sponsored links (print-out of which was attached to the Complaint). It is now linked to a Wikipedia page providing information about the Greek god “Hermes”. Considering the print-out provided by Complainant, it seems apparent, however, that the original intent of Respondent was to offer identical goods as Complainant’s (including “Hermès”-replicas) and that it was intended to mislead Internet users for commercial gain."
The respondent ,Boris Moser,failed to submit a response in this proceeding .
The Panel ordered the disputed domain name be transferred from the respondent to the complainant .
You can read the decision here .
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