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Materia.com domain name handed back following lawsuit

Materia.com was transferred following UDRP but respondent got the domain back.

Michele Dinoia lost the domain name Materia.com as the respondent in a UDRP in August.

Now he has the domain name back.

He filed suit in September against California firm Materia, Inc, which had won the domain in the UDRP.

He asked the court to stay the transfer of the domain to Materia following the UDRP and for a finding of reverse domain name hijacking.

The registrar had by now transferred the domain name to Materia.

As stated by court records, Dinoia dismissed the case contingent on Materia transferring the domain name back to his possession. As stated by whois records, the transfer back has been completed.

Both parties agreed to pay their own legal costs.

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