Yes, as usual innocent people get caught up in the illegal actions of a few. Did anybody read the judgement?
No due process for innocent domain registrants caught up in this, and the lack of UDRP filing by the corporations is surprising as they are well aware of this process in brand protection and who are well financed and a minor cost in the grand scheme of things. The enforcement over obvious or not so obvious trademark issues is not the business of Registrars. The Registrars are not policing of TM infringement, the venue of recourse is WIPO so question is why isn't the Indian Government directing the plaintiffs to pursuing this matter in the proper venue?
"Namecheap Inc, it is clear that stringent steps would be required to be taken, in order to curb the menace of illegal domain name registrations having well known marks and names of business houses."
Namecheap should have responded that WIPO is the UDRP venue and international court.
"The court was hearing a bunch of pleas, concerning proliferation of fraudulent domain names, filed by trademark and brand owners seeking reliefs again"
HINDUSTAN UNILEVER LTD vs UNILEVERR1.IN (No UDRP found)
ULTRATECH CEMENT LIMITED vs UltratechCements. com (No UDRP found)
BAJAJ FINANCE LIMITED vs. BAJAJ-FINSERVE.ORG- (No UDRP filed, used for phishing or bad faith?)
AMAZONBUYS.IN (No info found on a filed UDRP, why not?)
MONTBLANCINDIA.COM Seriously?, UDRP Transferred- Case Number D2019-2912
JOCKEY INTERNATIONAL INC. vs JockeyFranchise . com (No UDRP filed)
BAJAJ FINANCE LIMITED vs. BAJAJ-FINSERVE.ORG (NO UDRP filed)
AMAZONBUYS.IN (Registering this obvious TM infringement- no wonder Microsoft, MCDONALDS CORPORATION, Amazon, Godaddy, etc are involved. Mont Blanc (UDRP), COLGATE PALMOLIVE COMPANY, should be pursuing this in WIPO. Why not? )
See 17 March 2022 page, isn't this a fake page?
web. archive . org/web/20220317074119/http://amazonbuys.in/
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"The primary issue that arises in these cases is that the proliferation of these fraudulent and illegal domain names has resulted in enormous damage to innocent and gullible members of the public, who have mistakenly paid large sums of money to the said website owners/domain name owners."
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