Quick question for the lawyer types. This scenario is strictly
hypothetical.
I have a friend, his name is Bob. Bob owns the domain Amaxon.com. As you can clearly see, Amaxon is an obvious misspelling of Amazon. His domain gets lots and lots of highly targetted visitors, cuz everyone is looking to buy books at Amazon.
If Bob tries to sell books on Amaxon.com he will probably get WIPOed. But Bob is a clever lad, what he does is he registers the domain RebeccaAmaxon-Bookseller.com and then he sets amaxon.com to forward all traffic to his new domain and then sells books there. Bob is hoping that Amazon couldn't prove that their trademark on 'Amazon' was even slightly similar to "RebeccaAmaxon-Bookseller".
Would this forwarding technique seem legit to a WIPO panel, or would they claim that Amaxon.com is still being used in bad faith? I know that its impossible to predict the actions of a WIPO panel, but I would welcome opinions.
hypothetical.
I have a friend, his name is Bob. Bob owns the domain Amaxon.com. As you can clearly see, Amaxon is an obvious misspelling of Amazon. His domain gets lots and lots of highly targetted visitors, cuz everyone is looking to buy books at Amazon.
If Bob tries to sell books on Amaxon.com he will probably get WIPOed. But Bob is a clever lad, what he does is he registers the domain RebeccaAmaxon-Bookseller.com and then he sets amaxon.com to forward all traffic to his new domain and then sells books there. Bob is hoping that Amazon couldn't prove that their trademark on 'Amazon' was even slightly similar to "RebeccaAmaxon-Bookseller".
Would this forwarding technique seem legit to a WIPO panel, or would they claim that Amaxon.com is still being used in bad faith? I know that its impossible to predict the actions of a WIPO panel, but I would welcome opinions.