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EGrandstand.com files UDRP against Grandstand.com — Owner of

Firm wants to drop the ‘e’ from its domain name.

A glassware and apparel firm that goes by the name Grandstand has filed a UDRP against GrandStand.com, a common word domain name that was registered in 1995.

Based on DomainTools historical whois records, the current registrant has owned the domain name since at least 2001, which is when DomainTools started collecting records on the domain name. It is very likely the original owner.

The glassware firm, Screen-It Graphics of Lawrence, Inc. d/b/a Grandstand, registered eGrandStand.com in or following 2004.

Grandstand.com has been resolving to “coming soon” pages without ads for many years.

Barring some sort of extenuating circumstances that aren’t apparent to me, this case is a candidate for reverse domain name hijacking.

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