Firm’s UDRP to recover expired domain fails
Pet products firm filed a UDRP following somehow allowing its “principal domain” to expire over a year ago.
Healthy Pets, Inc. d/b/a Pet Health Solutions has lost a UDRP it filed to recover a domain name it let expire.
The firm sells the Joint Max brand pet joint supplement. As stated by its UDRP filing, the jointmax.com domain, and the website hosted at it, were Healthy Pets, Inc.’s principal domain and website ahead of it expired in August 2020.
Which leads to the question…how did it let this notable domain expire?
It writes, “Healthy Pets, Inc. first learned that it had lost ownership and control of the jointmax.com domain on or regarding January 29, 2021, during a routine, periodic review of Healthy Pets, Inc.’s domain assets.”
If the domain was the firm’s principal domain, it’s surprising that it didn’t notice the domain expired during the renewal grace period. The registrar turns off the nameservers for the domain and sends multiple emails.
Furthermore, if it was the principal domain for the firm, why did it wait nearly a year to file a UDRP? As stated by the case decision, it tried to acquire the domain in February 2021. It seems odd that it would wait so long to file a UDRP if it believed it would win.
Panelist Antonina Pakharenko-Anderson ruled in favor of the domain owner. He noted that the domain owner holds many domains ending in -max, and as a generic domain seller, the Complainant didn’t show that he lacked legitimate rights or interests in the domain.
