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WIPO D2000-0477 · 2000

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Walsucks and Walmarket Puerto Rico

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What the case decided

The respondent registered five domains within days of losing an earlier Wal-Mart dispute, then demanded payment for 'domain name consultant' services. The panel called it a blatant abuse of the registration process.

The parties

Complainant
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
Respondent
Walsucks and Walmarket Puerto Rico (Kenneth J. Harvey)

Read the decision

The full text is published by the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center. We summarise it here; the decision itself is the authority.

WIPO decision D2000-0477

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