WIPO D2016-2140 · 2016
Virgin Enterprises Limited v. Cesar Alvarez
Transferredvirginmedia.shop
In Virgin Enterprises Limited v. Cesar Alvarez, D2016-2140 (WIPO, 2016), the panel transferred virginmedia.shop, registered in September 2016. The registrant admitted choosing names by monthly search volume and asked Virgin for more than his costs. Missing the .shop sunrise period did not stop the panel finding bad faith, though the domain was unused.
The parties
- Complainant
- Virgin Enterprises Limited
- Respondent
- Cesar Alvarez
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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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