Microsoft,the United States-based multinational computer technology corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices submitted a complaint to the National Arbitration Forum,requesting the domain name bing-news.com to be transferred to them.
Although everyone knew about this news search engine,it seems that Prakash Prasad Timilsina,which is also the respondent in this case,speculated the launching of the search engine and registered the disputed domain name,bing-news.com,right after Microsoft announced the launching of its new product.
Moreover,the complainant argue in the complaint that the respondent has infringed its trademark by using the domain name to offer a competing news service for commercial gain.
On the other hand,the respondent gives some interesting answers in his defense.The respondent said it was just a coincidence that he registered the domain name right after Microsoft announced their news search engine.Moreover,he said he was inspired by the name of "bingmail.com.au" which is owned by a third party.He went even further,wanting to respect the complainant's trademark "Bing" and changed the service he was providing from online news to something else.
But,it seems that the Panel found Microsoft the rightful owner of the domain name.Therefore,they ordered the disputed domain name, bing-news.com to be transferred from the respondent to the complainant.