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WIPO D2006-0560 · 2006

Tom Cruise v. Network Operations Center / Alberta Hot Rods

Transferredtomcruise.com
In Tom Cruise v. Network Operations Center / Alberta Hot Rods, D2006-0560 (WIPO, 2006), a three-member panel transferred tomcruise.com almost 10 years after it was registered in November 1996. The panel held that the UDRP has no laches or limitation period, so delay alone does not bar a complaint without evidence of consent.

What happened afterwards

The respondent's president, Jeff Burgar, had won Bruce Springsteen v. Jeff Burgar, D2000-1532, in 2001 on similar facts. The Tom Cruise panel instead followed the decisions brought against him by Celine Dion, Kevin Spacey and Michael Crichton, which rejected the same celebrity portal defence.

The parties

Complainant
Tom Cruise
Respondent
Network Operations Center / Alberta Hot Rods

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

WIPO decision D2006-0560

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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