An arbitrator with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center awarded Lancome 23 domain names.The company submitted a complaint to the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center on September 26,2011,asserting legal rights over the disputed domain names.
The 23 domain names are : cnloreal.info,ilancome.info,iloreal.info,inloreal.info,lancomechina.info, lancomecn.info, lancomein.info, lancomeso.info, lancomesp.info, lancometaobao.info, lancometb.info, lancomeweb.info, lorealcn.info, lorealin.info, lorealshop.info, lorealsite.info, lorealtaobao.info, lorealtb.info, lorealweb.info, solancome.info, soloreal.info, 51lancome.info, and 51loreal.info .Lancome owns many trademark registrations for the "Lancome" and "L'Oreal" marks.Therefore,it is more than obvious that the disputed domain names are confusingly similar to its trademark.Moreover,Lancome contended that the respondent registered and used the domain names in bad faith .
"The Respondent has clearly engaged in a pattern of conduct of registering the disputed domain names comprising the Complainant’s well-known Trade Marks, without the authorisation or approval of the Complainant, in order to set up Chinese language Websites masquerading as “official” or “flagship” L’ORÉAL or LANCÔME websites. Whilst the use of a website to market and sell genuine products manufactured by a third party is not necessarily of itself conduct evincing bad faith on the part of the Respondent, the Panel notes the Websites offer for sale products of not just the Complainant but also of the Complainant’s competitors."
The Panel decided the disputed domain names to be transferred from the respondent to the complainant.
You can read the decision here .