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Name saved in cybersquatting dispute — GNP.com domain

Name saved in cybersquatting dispute — GNP.com domain

Mexican insurance firm fails to snag three letter .com through cybersquatting dispute.

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Domain investor Yancy Naughton has successfully defended his domain name GNP.com with the help of attorney John Berryhill.

Grupo Nacional Provincial, S.A., an insurance firm in Mexico, filed a UDRP against the domain at World Intellectual Property Organization.

Naughton told the panel that he purchased the domain name since of its value as a three letter domain, not to target the Mexican insurance firm.

The three-member panel agreed, writing, “It is abundantly clear to the Panel that the Respondent purchased the Disputed Domain Name since of its value as a generic three-letter acronym and not since of any connection with the Complainant.”

The panel found that the insurance firm failed to show that the domain was registered and used in bad faith, and it also failed to show that Naughton lacked rights or legitimate interests in the domain name.

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