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Files complaints over .co and .xxx domains — Kate Spade

Files complaints over .co and .xxx domains — Kate Spade

Firm upset over Kate Spade domain names.

Kate SpadeFashion brand Kate Spade, LLC has filed UDRP complaints at World Intellectual Property Organization against the owners of two domain names: KateSpade.co and KateSpade.xxx.

KateSpade.co resolves to a page announcing that the domain name is for sale; the .xxx domain goes to a domain name registrar “coming soon” page.

Kate Spade has filed UDRP complaints ahead of — but these are the first two since 2008. That makes me think the firm just became aware of “fresh” domain extensions such as .co and .xxx.

Both top level domain names offered sunrise periods during which the firm could have purchased (or blocked, in the case of .xxx) the domains for a fraction of the cost of a UDRP filing.

The firm was successful in its previous four UDRP cases filed between 2002 and 2008.

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