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for users who liked his Facebook page 5 Parties Contentions A Complainant The Complainant is operating a leading online insurance comparison portal under the Complainant s Trademarks which provides solutions to 5000000 Indian customers since

ADMINISTRATIVE PANEL DECISION Facebook Inc v Emma Boiton Case No D2016-0623 1 The Parties The Complainant is Facebook Inc of Menlo Park California United States of America United States represented by Hogan Lovells Paris LLP France The Respondent

in December 2015 The official Facebook page for the platform has 1.2 million fans The Complainant owns a range of registered trade marks for HOTSTAR including European Union Trade Mark No 013618053 filed January 2 2015 and registered on May 4 2015

regarding its products e.g Facebook Instagram Twitter and Pinterest As a result of the Complainant s widespread and prolonged use of its MOU trade mark the Complainant has developed substantial reputation rights in addition to its registered

The Complainants are Facebook Inc Facebook and its wholly owned subsidiary Instragram LLC Instagram The First Complainant Facebook is a large social networking company founded in 2004 It has more than 1.59 billion monthly active users and

page views The Complainant s Facebook page currently has more than 25 million likes and its Twitter account has over 2.8 million followers The Facebook page features MONSTER ENERGY sponsored athletes sports and events from all over the world It

media platforms such as Facebook 200000 followers YouTube 55549 followers Instagram 67500 followers Google and Twitter 6900 followers The Complainant has also registered a number of domain names under generic Top-Level Domains gTLD and

of the TM5 product on Facebook and YouTube The Complainant submits that each of the disputed domain names is identical or confusingly similar to a trademark or service mark in which the Complainant has rights It relies on both registered

an author and notes that her Facebook page is operated under the name or style AD Justice has a following of approximately 13000 fans She submits that the Respondent would have been aware of her name and books by virtue of a simple Internet search

the generic Top-Level Domain facebook.com facebook.org facebook.biz whatsapp.com whatsapp.net whatsapp.info and under the country extensions facebook.com.br facebook.com.ar whatsapp.be and whatsapp.de The Respondent registered the disputed domain

refers to the trademark FACEBOOK but the Panel understands that this was a typo and that the Complainant meant to refer to the trademark WHATSAPP The Complainant contends that the confusing similarity is not eliminated by adding the terms

more than 3900 likes on its Facebook page and more than 1100 followers on its Twitter account Id Paragraph29 Over the first nine months of 2015 Complainant s website traffic counts showed an average of more than 43000 unique users per month Id

disputed domain name on its Facebook Page B Respondent The Center received an email on March 21 2016 from a person claiming to be the registered agent for the Respondent Dayzed Pty Ltd in which it was stated I am writing to inform you that Dayzed

Resort Poort van Amsterdam op Facebook Los van de door partijen overlegde stukken blijkt uit de publiek toegankelijke website www.archive.org dat Verweerder op 6 en 10 juli 2015 reeds gebruik maakte van de website achter de Domeinnaam Hoe dit ook

it states that its Facebook page has over 1.4 million likes and its other social media accounts have several hundred thousand followers Complainant owns various U.S registrations for the COACHELLA mark including a standard word mark

media platforms including Facebook and Twitter Due to this longstanding use and promotion of the TRAVELOCITY Marks the consuming public and the trade recognize and associate the TRAVELOCITY Marks with Complainant Respondent registered the

3.3 million followers on Facebook and 100000 followers on Twitter The Complainant states that with annual turnover of USD 18.69 million and expenditure on promotional activity worth USD 17.24 million the Life OK channel has been a tremendous

from Ms Zapata She said on facebook that she would I gave her mine email address You must have gotten from her But I m willing to sell my domain for the price of USD 5000 It is not illegal to buy domain names He decided to buy the FRA sic domain

Ltd WIPO Case No DAU2002-0001 Facebook Inc v Callverse Pty Ltd WIPO Case No DAU2008-0007 The question of when rights were acquired may become relevant under subsequent stages of the inquiry especially whether the Respondent has rights or legitimate