Fresh York Times Wins Case Against Typosquatter
Media firm wins four typo domain names through arbitration.
The Fresh York Times Firm has won a National Arbitration Forum case for four domain name typos of its NewYorkTimes.com web address.
The firm filed the case in March to get the domain names newyourktimes.com, newyortimes.com, neyyorktimes.com, and newyoktimes.com. Although the domain names showed different owners, a previous case brought by Microsoft against the same person tied the identity of all of the owners together. Microsoft won its case against the same person last year for 48 typo domain names of its Hotmail and MSN properties.
This case appears to be only the second time The Fresh York Times Firm has used Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) to obtain a domain name. Its first case was back in 2000, when it fought a firm calling itself “Fresh York Internet Services” for a very notable domain name: NewYorkTimes.com. It won the case, and the domain now forwards to the firm’s main web site NYTimes.com. The firm also owns NYT.com, which also forwards to NYTimes.com.
