Takes a 3rd stab at JustBulbs.com — Just Bulbs

Following losing two UDRPs, light bulb store files federal lawsuit.

If at first you don’t succeed…

Fresh York City light bulb store Just Bulbs has filed a federal lawsuit (pdf) against the owner of the JustBulbs.com domain name, marking its third attempt to get the domain name through an arbitration or legal filing.

The firm filed and lost a UDRP against domain name owner Greg Ricks in 2003. It then filed a case in 2013 that it also lost. Now it’s turning to the courts to try to get the domain name.

In the original UDRP, the panel was impressed that Ricks changed the use of the parked page on the domain name to refer to flower bulbs instead of light bulbs. The panel in the second UDRP referred to the finding in the first case that the domain name wasn’t registered in bad faith, even if it was allegedly used in bad faith subsequently.

The lawsuit goes beyond claiming violation of the Anti-cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act to include five other causes of action.

Just Bulbs uses the domain names JustBulbsNYC.com and JustBulbs.nyc.