WIPO D2000-0505 · 2000
Excelentisimo Ayuntamiento de Barcelona v. Barcelona.com Inc.
Transferredbarcelona.com
In Excelentisimo Ayuntamiento de Barcelona v. Barcelona.com Inc., D2000-0505 (WIPO, 2000), the panel ordered the geographic domain transferred to the city authority. The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit later reversed that transfer, a reminder that a UDRP decision is not final and can be displaced by a court.
What happened afterwards
The transfer was later reversed by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. A useful reminder that a UDRP decision is not final and can be displaced by a court.
The parties
- Complainant
- Excelentisimo Ayuntamiento de Barcelona
- Respondent
- Barcelona.com Inc.
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.
Summarised by Gergana Dimitrova, who worked at the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center from 2018 to 2021 and sits as a domain name panelist at the Czech Arbitration Court. Full background.
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