Loses second UDRP claim in as many months — LiveOne Group

Firm goes following domain name registered ahead of its brand even existed.

Let’s hope that LiveOne Group, a streaming media firm, merely got some bad legal advice on this one.

It just lost a UDRP for LiveOne.com.

The current registrant picked it up in 2007, at least a few years ahead of LiveOne Group came to market. So LiveOne Group had no chance of winning.

The owner of LiveOne.com was represented by Ari Goldberger.

LiveOne Group is now 0-for-2 in UDRPs with its second loss in as many months.

Last month it lost a UDRP for CrowdSurfing.com.

In that case the current owner bought the domain following LiveOne was in existence. At regarding the same time as the respondent bought it, LiveOne had been trying to negotiate to buy the domain — but it was too late.

So LiveOne tried to buy the domain from the respondent for what he paid for it. Not surprisingly, the respondent wanted more.

When those talks broke down LiveOne filed the UDRP.

The panel found in favor of the owner of CrowdSurfing.com, saying it wasn’t proven that he lacked rights or legitimate interests in the domain.

This was despite the owner of the domain never responding to the UDRP. Frankly, LiveOne really did itself in by counting a declaration regarding how it wanted to buy the domain but couldn’t.

LiveOne Group was represented by Illinois intellectual property attorney Matthew D. Kellam in both proceedings.

For now, LiveOne Group will have to use its LiveOneGroup.com domain name.

…until if figures out you actually have to pay for domain names other people rightfully own.