The Queen’s a reverse Hijacker!
April 12, 2009
I just got reminded of this case through the fact that ‘QueenElizabeth.com’ is about to drop into snapnames hands . Basically the advisors to the Queen of England rather arrogantly suggested that she must have the rights to ‘NewZealand.com’. It was around the time every Tom, Dick and Harry was tring it on for generics, a bit like now, but Geo’s were more the subject for reverse hijacking attempts then.
The beauty of this aesop’s fable is that Liz got branded a reverse hijacker.
To quote the WIPO panelists : “The allegation of reverse domain name hijacking succeeds”
They even went as far to say: “In the circumstances, the Panel has no hesitation in branding this misconceived Complaint as an abuse of the Policy, which has put the Respondent to needless expense.”
Which was particularly amusing. Hey, who said WIPO never get it right and have no sense of humour?? LOL
Here are the panelists:
Tony Willoughby
Presiding Panelist
Gordon Harris
Panelist
Panelist
Milton Mueller
Hmm,Mueller sounds German to me, wonder if he wrote the report?!
Hey, I can say that it’s my blog! The Queen’s more German than English anyway, but that’s another story. I’m a Brit myself so not biased! Not much.
Okay, enough rambling here’s the official WIPO report:
