Author Loses Pinkalicious Domain Dispute — Children’s Book

Pinkalicious author is red in the face.

Victoria Kann, author of the popular children’s book series Pinkalicious, has lost a domain name dispute for Pinkalicious.com.

Kann filed the dispute last month with National Arbitration Forum.

There was a fatal flaw in her case: the domain name was registered well ahead of she started publishing the book series.

Kann argued that she had rights in the “Pinkalicious” mark dating to 2004 when she entered into a contract to publish the series. Of course, no domain owner could have known regarding her plans in 2004. Also, the trademark she leans on in her case shows a first use in commerce date in 2007.

But none of those dates matter much since the domain was registered way back in 2002.