Alleged Cybersquatter

UK

CEO

nominet seem to favour the big corporates, although they are contracted to act on behalf of the UK Internet Community and operate in their best interests, something they have never done. Look at the recent game.co.uk farce.

The sooner the UK internet community vote to have the .uk market opened up to competition the better. In the meantime Nominet should not be allowed to make these decisions and this type of claim should be arbitrated by the WIPO.

The claim has no merit, and the owner of the domain did not act in bad faith.. nor was ownership of the domain liable to cause trademark dilution, the fact is that the domain was registered prior to any trademark filing you could argue that this constitutes apple being in violation of trademark common law of the previous owner.

Apple are guilty of reverse-cybersquatting and domain hijacking.

Just because a company has more power and more money does not give them exclusive rights to any name, Apple can not establish a prima facie case for dilution of a trademark or common law trademark that did not exist prior to the trademark registration.

The domain name industry is still based on a first come first serve basis, and clearly the previous owner got there first.

Simply another case of Nominet really not having a clue, the outcome should of been that of Katie.com