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Microsoft wins wapbing.net domain name in Arbitration

Sunday, 14 February 2010
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Microsoft,the United States-based multinational computer technology corporation has recently won a domain name case against lijiuliang  . The corporation submitted a complaint to the National Arbitration Forum,requesting the disputed domain name to be transferred from the respondent to the complainant.
Bing is the current web search engine from Microsoft.Therefore,Microsoft has applied to register the "Bing" trademark in a number of jurisdictions in including United States and Trademark Office.
Therefore,they contended in the complaint that the disputed domain name is confusingly similar to its trademark.
Moreover,the complainant contended that the respondent registered and used the domain name in bad faith.
"Respondent’s use of the confusingly similar <wapbing.net> domain name in order to intentionally attract Internet users to its website by creating a strong likelihood of confusion with Complainant’s BING mark in an attempt to profit is evidence of bad faith."
"Respondent is using the <wapbing.net> domain name to pass itself off as Complainant by imitating Complainant’s official website resolving from its <bing.com> domain name."
Because the complainant managed to demonstrate all the elements needed,and because the respondent failed to submit a response in this proceeding,the Panel ordered the disputed domain name to be transferred from the respondent to the complainant.

You can see the decision here .


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