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Insurance firm claims rights to AutoOwner.com and others

Insurance firm states it ought to get AutoOwner.com. Is it generic?

Auto-Owners Insurance has filed UDRP cases against the owners of four domain names that it thinks infringe its intellectual property rights, counting AutoOwner.com.

The insurance firm’s web site is www.auto-owners.com.

The other domains in dispute are

autoownersinsurance.com
autoownersinsurance.org
autoowners-insurance.com

Although “auto owner” is certainly a generic term, I’m sure the firm will argue that the many insurance links on the parked page at AutoOwner.com are incriminating. One of the links reads “Auto Owners Insurance Co”.

Autoownersinsurance.com is in bad shape, too. Some of the links on that parked page are “Pay Bill @ Auto Owners” and “Auto-Owners Insurance Firm”.

The other two domains are interesting, though. They both lead to insurance related web sites.

What do you think?

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