This is a common
practice for websites that wish to prevent their content from being crawled by search engines such as
Google. The nature of the disputed domain being used as a directory listing site could be misconstrued by
search engines as duplicative content and in order to avoid any search engine optimization penalty for
displaying duplicative content the Respondent intentionally prevented it from being crawled by use of the
robots.txt file. ...
2024-03-13 - Case Details
This, according to the Respondent, is evident from the names, titles, and texts on the websites, associated to each of the disputed domain names, and from their audience, and is allegedly confirmed by the Google Analytics data submitted by the Respondent. The geographical targeting, and protection of the rights of the Complainant are locally distributed exclusively in the European Union and do not intersect with the custom audience of the Respondent's websites.
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2018-05-07 - Case Details
This, according to the Respondent, is evident from the names, titles, and texts on the websites, associated to each of the disputed domain names, and from their audience, and is allegedly confirmed by the Google Analytics data submitted by the Respondent. The geographical targeting, and protection of the rights of the Complainant are locally distributed exclusively in the European Union and do not intersect with the custom audience of the Respondent's websites.
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2018-05-07 - Case Details
This, according to the Respondent, is evident from the names, titles, and texts on the websites, associated to each of the disputed domain names, and from their audience, and is allegedly confirmed by the Google Analytics data submitted by the Respondent. The geographical targeting, and protection of the rights of the Complainant are locally distributed exclusively in the European Union and do not intersect with the custom audience of the Respondent's websites.
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2018-05-07 - Case Details
When left to auto-optimization, the PPC system will tend to converge on a few primary topics and will occasionally rotate new topics into the system, depending on the relevance of words to subjects in advertising campaigns across the systems of advertising vendors such as Google or Yahoo, who manage the advertiser end of this particular advertising mechanism and who ultimately produce the paid search results to which PPC searches lead. ...
2019-01-30 - Case Details
This name can be
found in generic use in search engines (for which the Respondent provides search
results from the Google search engine in Annex A to the Response), various web-based
news articles (which the Respondent provides in Annexes B and E to the Response;
the hard copy article in Annex B is entitled “Las Vegas Wash Coordination
Committee” -- which shows a map in the upper right corner of the article
having a partial caption “Map of the Las Vegas Valley showing the Las
Vegas Wash as it flows under Lake Las Vegas into the Las Vegas Bay at Lake Mead”;
the hard copy of the Article in Annex E being entitled “Japanese crab
surfaces in Lake Las Vegas”) publications, real estate listings, phone
books, maps (which the Respondent has provided in Annex D in the Response; the
map captioned “Las Vegas Neighborhoods” with a vertical map key
situated along the right side of the map with the term “Lake Las Vegas”
as an entry), and in common everyday language in the area. ...
2002-10-15 - Case Details
- The Complainant’s solicitors carried out a worldwide Google search on the internet on August 19, 2002, using "Aspreys" and "casino" and no casino or similar business using the name "Aspreys" was revealed. ...
2003-03-12 - Case Details
British Telecommunications directory enquiry - No entry in London for “QTK Internet” or for any entity with the prefix “QTK”.
3. Google search - No website entry for “QTK Internet.”
4. Royal Mail - Post code search - the Respondent’s post code is listed for British Monomarks Ltd a company providing PO box hire and phone answering services.
5. ...
2004-08-23 - Case Details
In that case, the complainant had registered the word ELEPHANT as a UK trademark for insurance services while the respondent had used the domain name for a website about elephants. The respondent had contracted with Google to display random advertisements on his site from which he no doubt derived commercial gain. The advertisements that were presented to British visitors to the site included advertisements for the complainant's competitors. ...
2009-02-13 - Case Details
Lamborghini cars have also featured in movies seen by millions of movie-goers worldwide, and the Complainant says that a Google search on “Lamborghini” resulted in approximately 57 million hits. The first 50 of those hits mostly linked to websites dealing with the Complainant's cars (whether sites concerned with the trading of cars, or fan sites).
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2008-12-12 - Case Details
The home page also carries, at least in some jurisdictions where the website is accessible, “Ads by Google” which include an advertisement in the form of a link to ING Insurance, which promotes car insurance for Mercedes vehicles, but also for other brands of automobiles and for house, life and other forms of insurance.
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2009-04-07 - Case Details
Currently, it displays a Romanian language and Google powered search engine page.
6. Parties’ Contentions
A. Complainant
6.1 The Complainant’s factual and legal contentions can be summarised as follows:
Identical or Confusingly Similar
6.2 The Complainant claims to be the world market leader in adhesives, sealants and surface treatments for consumers, craftsmen and industrial applications. ...
2008-05-02 - Case Details
The Respondent argues that the descriptive nature of the domain name is underscored by more than 1.4 million third-party webpages containing on or more of these terms, as evidenced by a Google search.
In view of the foregoing, the Respondent argues that there is no evidence of bad faith registration or use. ...
2008-08-13 - Case Details
Hevun Diversified Corp., NAF Case No. FA791657 (November 13, 2006); Google Inc. v. Burns, NAF Case No. FA726096 (August 16, 2006); The Cheesecake Factory Inc. and The Cheesecake Factory Assets Co., LLC v. ...
2008-08-12 - Case Details
It has also furnished as evidence search lists from Google and Face book showing names of people and invoices of some businesses using the name “Nalli”.
The Respondent states that Duraswami Saroja, the mother of Nalli Sambasivam, the proprietor of the Respondent, Nalli's Silk Sari Center, is the owner of the NALLI trademark 366240B in class 24. ...
2009-08-11 - Case Details
According to the Response, the links are automatically generated by Google.
After the Complaint was filed, a lawyer acting for the Complainant emailed the Respondent to inquire about purchasing the disputed domain name. ...
2009-12-23 - Case Details
被投诉人恶意注册和使用域名
(1) 投诉人称，被投诉人注册或获取域名的主要目的是为了向作为商品商标或服务商标所有人的投诉人或其竞争对手出售、出租或转让域名，以获取直接与域名注册相关费用之外的额外收益。根据投诉人通过google在互联网上的搜索结果显示，被投诉人在1999年至2000年间抢注了大量中国知名企业的域名，包括中国网通; 申花足球俱乐部; 瑞星软件公司 ; 中国化工，吉利汽车;飞乐股份; 科健股份 和飞亚达等域名。...
2010-03-04 - Case Details
Moreover, the Domain Name in this case, MOBILCOM, is not a dictionary word, and even a cursory search on such engines like Yahoo1 and Google would have shown that MOBILCOM is a trademark. The Panel thus concludes that Respondent has registered this Domain Name to prevent Complainant from reflecting its mark in the corresponding .com Domain Name, and that Respondent is engaged in a pattern of such conduct.'”
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2010-02-12 - Case Details
在2010年4月13日提交的答辩书中，被投诉人答辩如下：
1、其申请注册争议域名符合法律程序；
2、其向消费者提供价格合理的产品，相关消费者都是通过在Google网上进行搜索找到其网站，其并未强迫和欺骗消费者购买其产品；
3、其有证据证明在收到投诉通知之前，其正在使用或准备使用争议域名或与争议域名对应的名称来用于提供诚信商品或服务；
4、尽管其没有取得商品商标或服务商标的权利，但其已经因为使用争议域名而广为人知；
5、其合法合理使用争议域名，不具有营利的目的，也不存在为商业利润而误导消费者或玷污争议之商标或服务标志的意图；
6、许多消费者不能负担价格高昂的Christian Louboutin鞋类产品，因此其设立相关网站销售Louboutin鞋类产品；
7、其并无意扰乱竞争者的正常业务；以及
8、其意图是吸引对Christian Louboutin产品感兴趣的消费者，是这些消费者主动找到其网站，其并没有误导消费者购买产品。
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2010-06-03 - Case Details
As part of its search to determine any possible conflicts before accepting this case, the Panel conducted a Google search for Tomas Breen, Ireland. The search disclosed a link to Tomas Breen on Linkedin. On the link Tomas Breen is described as a Web Application and UX Developer. ...
2012-11-07 - Case Details