Working through its subsidiary Internet Opportunity Entertainment, Sportingbet took the Canadian company Zubee.com Networks before the World Intellectual Property Organisation’s Arbitration and Mediation Centre, claiming that the company had no legitimate interest in the domain Sportingbet.net and that it was acting in bad faith in registering and holding on to it.
In order to gain control of a domain name from someone else, a company has to prove that it is identical or confusingly similar to one of its trade marks, that it has rights or legitimate interests in the name and that the other party does not, and that the other party acted in bad faith in regard to the domain.
The WIPO panel found that Sportingbet had relevant trade marks and that they were identical or confusingly similar to Zubee’s domain names. (infopowa)
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