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Frequent UDRP loser to have its domains disabled — Harvard sues

Firm that lost four UDRP complaints if filed against others might be at risk of losing its own domain name.

Harvard has sued a handful of firms it states have copied its trademarked exam questions.

Among these firms is one that lost four UDRP cases in a single week — Certplex, Ltd.

Certplex lost four UDRPs for domain names counting the term “Braindumps”. One of Certplex’s sites offering test prep is Braindumps.com.

As stated by the complaint filed by Harvard, Certplex publishes actual questions from past exams, or near copies of the questions. Braindumps.com pretty much explains that this is its product’s selling point.

Harvard alleges that Certplex has published actual exam questions (or “substantially similar” questions) from the Harvard Business School online program HBX and its CORe Exams.

Harvard is asking the courts to transfer the defendants’ domain names, counting Braindumps.com, to its control. It lists a number of other sites that it alleges Certplex owns, such as ActualAnswers.com, CertKiller.com and ExamSheets.com. While all of these domain names right now have whois proxy, historical records from DomainTools show that Certplex has owned the domains at one time.

Imagine that: a firm that tried to take others’ “braindumps” domains might be at risk of losing its own.

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