The Registrant registered the Domain Name on February 1,
2001. The Complainant, Intact Financial Corporation, is Canada’s largest
insurance organization, and owns several well-known brands, including Grey
Power, and registered its trademark in 1997. The Complainant received no
response from the Registrant. The Panelist found that since the Complainant’s
trademark was known and well established, an objective bystander would
naturally assume the Domain Name was invoking the Complainant’s Mark, and therefore
confusingly similar. The Complainant submitted that the Registrant displayed a
pattern of registrations in order to prevent a rightful trademark owner from
registering their Domain Names, and provided 14 examples of registering the
same Domain as previously registered trade-marks, which was accepted by the
Panelist as proving the bad faith of the Registrant.
You can read the decision here.
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