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Launching UDRP cases is not without risk to the complainants - some aggrieved domain name owners resort to seeking damages through the court system.

A HVAC (Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning) company paid $40,000 to settle a lawsuit stemming from a frivolous UDRP that it filed..

January 2017:

CORPORACION EMPRESARIAL ALTRA S.L. of Málaga, Spain, represented by Privacidad Global, Spain, filed a UDRP case against Telepathy, Inc. of Washington DC, USA represented by Muscovitch & Associates, Canada over the domain name AIRZONE.com.
WIPO case D2017-0178

In May 2017 a WIPO panel comprising of 3 panelists (Pablo A. Palazzi, José Carlos Erdozain and W. Scott Blackmer) found that the Spanish HVAC company (CORPORACION EMPRESARIAL ALTRA S.L.) had been guilty of RDNH Reverse Domain Name Hijacking

See story about the AIRZONE.com UDRP case:

RDNH Finding in AIRZONE.com UDRP

May 30th 2017:

Domain investor Nat Cohen’s Telepathy, Inc filed a federal lawsuit against CORPORACION EMPRESARIAL ALTRA S.L of Malaga, Spain, over the domain name AIRZONE.com.

See news stories about the lawsuit following the AIRZONE.com lawsuit filing:

Telepathy sues after getting RDNH win

Telepathy scores $40,000 from reverse domain name hijacking case

November 2016:

Nat Cohen’s Telepathy sued Seattle company Parametric Portfolio Associates, LLC for reverse domain name hijacking involving the domain name parametric.com. The terms of the agreement were not disclosed, so the actual settlement figure is not publicly known.

Nat Cohen’s Telepathy sues for reverse domain name hijacking

Listen to the “Defending your domain names against frivolous UDRP claims”  interview with Nat Cohen of Telepathy podcast

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