In accordance with WIPO Overview of WIPO Panel Views on Selected UDRP Questions, Third Edition,
(“WIPO Overview 3.0”), section 4.8, panels may undertake limited factual research into matters of public
record, such as using the Internet Archive (Archive.org), to assess the credibility of the parties’ claims.
The Panel consulted Archive.org and verified that the disputed domain name was owned and used by the
Complainant at least since 19981. The archived versions at Archive.org also show that the design and
content of the website associated with the domain name were substantially identical to those currently
available on the disputed domain name.
5. ...
2025-07-21 - Case Details
However, based on the
screenshots available on the Internet Archive at “Archive.org”, it appears that the disputed domain name was
used in the past to promote the sale of PEDAL COMMANDER products in Europe. ...According to the screenshots available on the Internet Archive at <archive.org>, to which the Complainants refer in the ...
5. Parties’ Contentions
A. Complainants
B. Respondent
6. ...
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Here is the page from the Live web”);
- the screenshot dated August 28, 2008 apparently does appear in the Archive.org calendar, but, even if considered, such single entry does not support a finding that the registration was undertaken to target the Complainant and does not constitute an exceptional circumstance sufficient to support the Complainant’s Supplemental Filing. The Respondent apologizes for having missed this single entry in the 138 calendar entries and 739 data points included in the Archive.org database and states that, such use does not support a finding that the registration was undertaken to target the Complainant in 2006. ...
2013-06-19 - Case Details
Also from the “archive.org” website, the Complainant provided evidence of the website at the disputed domain name in 2012 which displayed links to a miscellany of links, including links titled “Government”, “Employment”, “Government Grants”, and “Education” among others.
...Notably, the last available screenshot of the website at on “archive.org” was May 11, 2008 – only 3 months after the Complainant began using GOVINO as a trademark in association with “drinking vessels”. ...
2014-01-30 - Case Details
The disputed domain name was registered on July 23, 2022.
According to an Archive.org screenshot, as of January 31, 2023, the disputed domain name formerly
resolved to a website in Chinese that purportedly related to a company called “许昌市鑫达电力设备安装有限
公司 (Xuchang Xinda Power Equipment Installation Co. ...According to the Complainant, it “is in the process of marketing a new product line under the name SHEVEU”.
According to an Archive.org screenshot, as of January 31, 2023, the disputed domain name formerly resolved to a website in Chinese that purportedly related to a company called “许昌市鑫达电力设备安装有限公司 (Xuchang Xinda Power Equipment Installation Co. ...
2023-08-07 - Case Details
Further, a screen shot of Complainant’s website (on Archive.org) from early 2009 evidences the limited area of operation mostly within the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, except to include Cochin in the neighboring state of Kerala. ...Respondent claims this point is supported by a screenshot of Respondent’s website from Archive.org dated January 25, 2003, which read as follows:
“Dear people offered,
We have a plan to use this name for our business.
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2020-01-14 - Case Details
The first redirection on record at “Archive.org” occurred in May 2002 – a year after Respondent registered the disputed domain name.
Respondent states that it pointed its disputed domain name to the AD-AWARE review page on “www.webattack.com” (later “www.snapfiles.com”). ...Respondent has been in active communications and doing business with Complainant and its predecessor for the past 8 or more years.
Respondent submits that as “Archive.org” records can verify, it has never used the disputed domain name to mislead or confuse users or to tarnish the reputation of Complainant’s product (Annex 5 of the Response includes copies from Archive.org to confirm this allegation).
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2012-02-15 - Case Details
At the time that the Complainant discovered the Respondent's registration, the Respondent was using, and continues to use, the disputed domain name to display pay-per-click advertising for the Complainant's direct and indirect competitors including, for example, Honda, BMW, and Mitsubishi. Screenshots captured by Archive.org show that in 2002 the disputed domain name was being used to display generic pay-per-click advertising. On or around July 30, 2004, Archive.org was instructed via robots.txt not to save screenshots relating to the disputed domain name.
The Respondent's use of the disputed domain name to redirect Internet users to unrelated websites does not constitute use in connection with a bona fide offering of goods and services under paragraph 4(c)(i) of the Policy. ...
2009-02-09 - Case Details
Currently, the Respondent has removed the Complainant’s logo, however, the Panel visited
“archive.org” and was able to verify that the Complainant’s JCB logo (including the same colors used for
each letter) was originally at the website to which the disputed domain name resolved.
...However, the Panel visited an older version of the disputed
domain name at “archive.org”, along with the evidence provided by the Complainant, and was able to
verify that the Respondent was using the JCB logo exactly with the same combinations of colors as the
Complainant trademark, with no disclaimer...
2024-01-08 - Case Details
The Complainant has provided screenshots of “Archive.org” where it can be seen that the disputed domain name was used on a website for a weekly published magazine. ...The Panel also visited “www.kibrisvoguemagazin.com” and was able to verify that the content makes also reference to the same magazine available in the archives of “Archive.org”.
The Panel concludes that, by using the disputed domain name in this manner, the Respondent is intentionally attempting to attract, for commercial gain, Internet users to its websites, by creating the likelihood of confusion with Complainant's trademark as to the source, sponsorship, affiliation or endorsement of its websites or of a product or service on its websites. ...
2014-02-03 - Case Details
This approach was called Defining Literacy Levels or “DLL” for short. An “archive.org” screenshot of the website then linked to the Disputed Domain Name dated December 7, 1998 (which is the earliest record available on “archive.org”) shows the following: “Story House Corporation has developed an approach for teaching children to read and write, which involves Defining Literacy Levels. ...Further if the Complainant had made sensible further enquiries (such as searching “archive.org”) it would have found out the Respondent had a case of legitimate interest. In addition had it approached the Respondent openly before launching this Complaint it would also likely have been informed of this position – instead it made an anonymous unsolicited approach to purchase the Disputed Domain Name and when that was rebuffed simply launched the present Complaint.
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2017-12-14 - Case Details
The Disputed Domain Name was in the Respondent’s wish list of surnames, and geographic and environmental terms – such as and which are also owned by the Respondent.
(g) “Archive.org” reveals the Disputed Domain Name was operated on November 11, 2001 by a business called “Greenfort & Lord” in Arizona. ...And the “Archive.org” search revealed the previous owner of was “Greenfort & Lord” – who appeared to have stopped doing business causing the domain name to be in the “SnapNames” auction.
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2016-06-28 - Case Details
He has been an Internet domain name broker since at least 1998, registering domain names for the primary purpose of reselling them for a profit, and in the interim using them for the purpose of revenues from PPC links placed on the websites.
Archive.org screenshots of Respondent’s “www.Namefinder.com” website show that the domain name has been offered for sale there for various prices ranging from USD 5,000 to USD 15,000. ...Annex 13 to the Complaint and Annex 3 to Complainants’ Supplemental Submission show that the “www.purpleheart.com” website is currently being used for PPC revenues, and archive.org screenshots show use of the “www.purpleheart.com” website for similar PPC links in 2006, 2007, 2010 and 2011. ...
2012-06-25 - Case Details
The Respondent submitted exhibits showing his activity as a race
car driver since 1991; Archive.org extracts document the use of the disputed domain name for an online
auto racing website between 1999 and 2008. The articles published under the disputed domain name, and
the inclusion of Respondent’s disputed domain name in the National Speedway Directory and the
corresponding corporate identity show bona fide use of the disputed domain name prior to the present
dispute.
Notably what does not appear in the Archive.org history is anything having to do with auto parts in Brazil.
After the Respondent discontinued his online auto racing website, the Respondent simply pointed the
disputed domain name to a default server page in the event there were any interest in reviving the name at a
later time. ...
2024-03-20 - Case Details
The Complainant’s contention is based upon print-outs of the website at the Disputed Domain Name obtained from the Archive.org service, showing the substitution of parking pages offering the sale of the Disputed Domain Name, and print-outs of historical WhoIs records from the DomainIQ service.
...The Respondent bought the Disputed Domain Name on February 14, 2019 for the premium price of USD 977.
The website Archive.org shows that the Complainant launched its “www.bookfull.com” platform on July 17, 2019, after the Respondent launched his business and bought the Disputed Domain Name.
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2020-07-10 - Case Details
Respondent registered the disputed domain name in 2009 and, according to archive.org printouts attached to the Complaint, used the disputed domain name for some time in connection with a “GEICO Towing Service” or “GEICO Towing & Emergency Roadside Assistance”. ...Complainant asserts that, in 2010, the disputed domain name was used for a website offering towing and related auto services using the GEICO mark. Complainant attached to the Complaint an archive.org printout of such use. Complainant asserts that after counsel for Complainant contacted Respondent about this use, however, Respondent altered the website to generate an inactive “error page”. ...
2014-02-04 - Case Details
Respecto a la eventual comunidad el Demandado sólo acompaña en Anexo 8 una copia del contenido del nombre de dominio en disputa, tal como podría haber sido visto en marzo de 2008, tomada de Archive.org (Internet Wayback Machine). A tal fecha el Demandado no tenía en su sitio publicada la receta del coctel Americanino. ...D2010-0008 con relación al uso de Internet Wayback Machine (Archive.org) para probar la inexistencia de un interés legítimo en el Demandado. Otro caso que admite su uso es: La Francaise des Jeux v. ...
2011-02-02 - Case Details
Kesin delillerin bulunmaması sebebiyle, İdari Hakem Heyeti <archive.org> sitesinde yaptığı araştırmada ihtilaf konusu alan adının taraflar arasında 27 Eylül 2010 tarihinden imzalanan Sözleşme'den önce 1 Eylül 2009 tarihindeki sayfasına ulaşmış ve alan adının Şikayet Edilen "Mikro Kurumsal" tarafından kullanıldığını, ana sayfada sol üst köşede "Mikro Kurumsal" ibaresinin sağ üst köşede de "Mikro ERP Çözüm Ortağı" ibaresinin yer aldığını, sitenin bilgisayar yazılım ve donanımları ile ilgili olarak kullanıldığını tesbit etmiştir.
İdari Hakem Heyeti <archive.org> sitesinde yaptığı araştırmada ayrıca ihtilafın ortaya çıkmasından önceki en son kayıt olarak 22 Kasım 2014 tarihindeki sitenin içeriğine de ulaşmıştır. ...
2015-10-16 - Case Details
At the time of their expiration, they were owned by ECBV.
According to Archive.org screenshots from 2001, 2003, and 2007, the disputed domain name formerly
resolved to a website that offered webhosting services and was branded with the Red Star Logo. ...In 2007, the
footer referred to “Over EuroNet”, and the homepage content indicated that the business was now part of
Orange.
Archive.org screenshots from 2014, 2018, 2021, and 2022 show the disputed domain name resolving to a
corporate information page headed “euronet communications BV”, with a different logo, which was described
as the technical network company behind the brand “Online.nl”. ...
2024-04-03 - Case Details
Zudem sei der streitige
Domainname ausweislich zweier von Screenshots (vom 19.12.2020 und vom 24.12.2021), die über die
Archivwebsite „archive.org“ abgerufen wurden, seit mehr als zwei Jahren nicht in einschlägiger Weise
benutzt worden.
...Sinngemäß bezieht sich der
Beschwerdeführer hierauf, wenn er unter Vorlage zweier Screenshots (vom 19.12.2020 und vom
24.12.2021, abgerufen über „archive.org“) vorträgt, der streitige Domainname sei seit mehr als zwei Jahren
nicht in einschlägiger Weise benutzt worden.
...
2023-10-23 - Case Details