The Complainant established its case and the Panelists
transferred the domain name to the Complainant.
The Registrant registered the domain name on August 4, 2009.
The Complainant, Microsoft Corporation, was founded in 1975 and is a worldwide
leader in software services and solutions that help people and businesses
realize their full potential. The Panelists concluded that the Domain Name
GBING.CA was confusingly similar and that the Registrant had no legitimate
interest in the Domain Name at all, despite the addition of the letter “G” in
front of BING. As part of their bad faith analysis, the Panelists found that
the Registrant was providing a competing internet search service using the
whole of the Complainant’s BING trade-mark.
Further, the Registrant’s home page appears to copy Google’s use of
different colours for each letter of GBING, generates ad revenue and has
several click-through advertisements for some of Canada’s largest banks. The
panelists noted there are no applications or registrations for GBING or
GBING.CA.
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