SEU The ICANN Policy for Disputed Domain Names Discussion & Reponse

read your Chapters 8 and 9 in your textbook and review the

ICANN Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policies

.Next, outline the requirements for a successful complaint for canceling or transferring a domain name under the ICANN policies. Next, please consider that the Coca-Cola Company that owns the domain name Coca-colacompany.com and the trademark for the drink, Coca-Cola, is seeking to cancel an allegedly wrongfully obtained domain name of Coca.Colacompany.comregistered by a John Jones who has no relationship to the Coca-Cola Company or their trademarked drink. Please analyze this case based on the ICANN dispute resolution policy requirements and tell us whether you think the Coca-Cola Company will prevail in an ICANN arbitration. Be sure to describe the reasons for your decision on who should win

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It is ICANN ‘s policy to provide a process for you to resolve a dispute to cancel or transfer domain names upon an unauthorized party registration. Also, by filing a successful complaint, the complainant must prove that the domain name registered by the defendant is identical or confusingly similar to a trademark or service mark to which the complainant has rights and that the defendant has no rights or legitimate interests in the domain name to sell for profit. or to obstruct the complainant’s business.  The Coca-Cola Company and the domain name Coca.Colacompany.com, the company trademarked the name Coca-Cola and owns the domain name Coca-colacompany.com. The name Coca.Colacompany.com is identical or confusingly similar to the Coca-Cola brand and domain name Coca-colacompany.com, because it is essentially a shortened version of the domain name.Coca-Cola will most likely prevail in ICANN’s arbitration because the disputed domain name is similar to its trademarked beverage and was registered and used in bad faith by someone without legitimate rights.Also, the fact that the defendant chose a domain name nearly identical to the Coca-Cola Company’s domain name indicates that the defendant was aware of the company’s trademark and decided to sell the domain name for profit or disrupt the company’s business. Therefore, it appears that The Coca-Cola Company meets the requirements for filing a successful complaint to cancel or transfer the Coca.Colacompany.com domain name under ICANN ‘s Dispute Resolution Policy.All registrants are required to follow the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (often referred to as the “UDRP”). Under this policy, most types of trademark-based domain name disputes must be resolved by agreement, lawsuit, or arbitration before the domain name can be revoked, suspended, or transferred by the registrant. The “UDRP” rules are approved by ICANN registrars in all gTLDs