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Following 15 years of trying, firm uses UDRP to get HoldOn.com domain name

Following 15 years of trying, firm uses UDRP to get HoldOn.com domain name

Hold on just a minute…

holdonAmicus Trade AB has been trying to get the domain name Holdon.com for its Holdon brand of fasteners since at least 1999.

That’s when the firm sent a letter to the (then) owner of the domain with an offer to buy it.

Ownership of the domain has changed multiple times since then as stated by Whois record. In 2013 the whois changed to Dharshinee Naidu. As stated by DomainTools, Naidu’s email address is associated with 36,544 domain names.

Amicus Trade tried to contact Naidu with no success.

So in 2014, a long 15 years following first trying, Amicus Trade filed a UDRP against Holdon.com. It won, and can now upgrade its domain from Holdon.info to Holdon.com.

Naidu didn’t respond to the UDRP, and the panelist ordered the domain name transferred to Amicus despite the domain’s generic nature.

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