Against valuable DAO.com domain denied — Cybersquatting claim

Both parties made allegations that are difficult to prove.

The domain name dao.com has become more valuable in the past year with the rise of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, a type of blockchain-based organization. So it was interesting to see a UDRP cybersquatting claim against the domain name.

It’s a confusing and complex case, too. Daodao Holding LLC and Daodao Group Firm Limited filed the complaint against Nie Zhenxiang.

The parties made a number of claims that the other parties say are false. There are allegations of domain theft and faked documents. And the main Complainant was just organized as a firm last year.

In the end, panelist Fernando Triana found that the Complainant failed to show rights in a trademark that the domain infringes on and that it failed to show the domain owner lacked rights or legitimate interests. He denied the transfer request.

I doubt Triana was going to get to the bottom of all of the allegations in a simple UDRP case. This type of dispute would need to be settled in a competent court.