Victoria's Secret,an American retailer of woman's wear,lingerie,shoes and beauty products,won the victoriassecretsale.com and victoriassecretfashionshow.info domain names in arbitration.
The company submitted a complaint to the National Arbitration Forum,requesting the two disputed domain names to be transferred from the respondent to the complainant.
Victoria's Secret owns many registered trademarks for the "Victoria's Secret" mark.Therefore,they contended in the complaint that the disputed domain name is confusingly similar to its trademark.
Moreover,they contended that the respondent registered and used the domain name in bad faith .
"Respondent is using the <victoriassecretsale.com> and <victoriassecretfashionshow.info> domain names to intentionally attract Internet users to Respondent’s websites for commercial gain. Complainant argues that Respondent receives click-through fees for the businesses that are advertised on Respondent’s websites resolving from the disputed domain names and that such use is further evidence of bad faith registration and use. "
Because the respondent failed to submit a response in this proceeding and because the complainant managed to demonstrate all the elements needed,the Panel ordered that the two domain names be transferred from the respondent to the complainant .
You can read the decision here .
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