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Fortune 500 Firm Goes Following Three Letter .Com But Loses

Firm with $5 billion in annual sales decides to try to nab domain through arbitration rather than buy it. The price just went up.

The owner of TDS.com has successfully defended his domain name from Telephone and Data Systems, Inc in a UDRP case.

Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. is #450 on this year’s Fortune 500 list and generated nearly $5 billion in revenue last year.

TDS.com was originally registered way back in 1991. The current registrant, Daniel Wang, started working for the domain owner Trident Data Systems in 1997 and was listed as the Administrative and Technical Contacts for the domain name as of 2001.

Trident was then purchased by General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems (GDAIS).

In 2009 Wang worked with the firm to transfer the domain name to his ownership.

Wang later parked the domain name, which may be where Telephone and Data Systems saw its opportunity.

The panel found that the complainant didn’t prove that Wang lacked rights or legitimate interests in the domain name.

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