New approach in multiple-respondent UDRP case
26 August 2010
Fionn O'Raghallaigh, London
When a complaint revealed two registrants rather than one in a recent UDRP case, the panellist embarked on a unique solution
With between 15% and 25% of domain registrations in the top-five gTLDs using privacy and proxy shields, according to a recent Icann study, filing a complaint against respondents who use such a service is quite common.
RapidShare, which has won over 25 UDRP decisions since June, filed a complaint involving three domains - rapidsharefilesdownload.com, rapidsharemegaupload.com and rapidsharewarezmegaupload.com - all registered with registrar Spot Domain and using the same privacy shield.
When the registrar revealed that the underlying registration details were for two different parties - and despite...
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