Domain investor sues following losing UDRP

Mira Holdings asks court for help following losing cybersquatting case.

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A domain name investment firm has filed a lawsuit (pdf) to stay the domain transfer from a recent Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution case.

Earlier this month, I wrote regarding Temco Industrial’s UDRP filed against temco.com.

Domain investor Mira Holdings argued that Temco is a name used by many firms. The World Intellectual Property Organization panel that decided the case against Mira wrote that there’s evidence of “targeting of Complainant (or another business using the TEMCO trademark or name)”.

This suggests that the panel believed that whichever of those trademark holders was first to file a UDRP ought to get the domain name.

Mira Holdings filed its lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Arizona. It’s asking the court for a declaratory judgment that its domain registration is not cybersquatting, and for damages for reverse domain name hijacking.

Update: Miro Holdings dropped the case.

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