WIPO D2000-0477 · 2000
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Walsucks and Walmarket Puerto Rico
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In Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Walsucks and Walmarket Puerto Rico, D2000-0477 (WIPO, 2000), the panel held that registering five domains within days of losing an earlier Wal-Mart dispute, then demanding payment for 'domain name consultant' services, was a blatant abuse of the registration process. All five domains were ordered transferred.
The parties
- Complainant
- Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
- Respondent
- Walsucks and Walmarket Puerto Rico (Kenneth J. Harvey)
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Summarised by Gergana Dimitrova, who worked at the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center from 2018 to 2021 and sits as a domain name panelist at the Czech Arbitration Court. Full background.
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