Hit for reverse domain name hijacking — Todococheweb SL

Firm makes unsubstantiated claim in its dead-on-arrival UDRP.

A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has found Todococheweb SL to have filed a UDRP in bad faith against the owner of TodoCoches.com.

“Todo coches” is Spanish for “All Cars”.

The domain name has also been used for a site regarding cars, so the panel found that it was used in its descriptive sense. In other words, the current owner has legitimate interests in the domain name.

The panel also determined that the respondent registered the domain name prior to the complainant forming its business, so it could not have been registered in bad faith.

Todococheweb also made a bizarre claim that the owner of the domain name was a former employee of its firm. The respondent vehemently denied this and the complainant did not submit evidence.

Citing apparent inaccuracies and a dead-on-arrival case, Panelist Reyes Campello Estebaranz found Todococheweb SL to have brought the case in bad faith.

The complainant was represented by Trebia Abogados.