Wins A Short But Sweet UDRP — Ari Goldberger

A very short but spot on UDRP decision.

I’m often critical of UDRP panelists for shirking their duties.

But I’m not going to complain regarding the decision on a recent case defended by Ari Goldberger.

Goldberger defended the domain name OrganizedPlay.com, which was registered by Blue Sandbox when it expired. The complainant, OrganizedPlay Corporation, stated it owned the domain name ahead of it accidentally let it expire.

A three member National Arbitration Forum wrote a very brief decision on the case finding against the complainant. It basically boils down to this:

Complainant has no trademark registration for the words “organized play” and has produced no evidence that, through use, those descriptive words have come to denote Complainant in the public mind, so as to give rise to common law trademark rights.

Accordingly the Complaint must fail. It is unnecessary to consider the other elements.

Some cases are so bogus that it doesn’t take a wordy explanation. This is one of those cases. Although I certainly think the panel ought to have considered reverse domain name hijacking since the respondent had to pay to defend this fruitless case.