The Complainant established its case and the Panelist
therefore directed the transfer of buickcertifiedservice.ca, chevroletcertifiedservice.ca
and cadillaccertifiedservice.ca to the Complainant.
The registrant (DS1 Design) did not respond to the
Complaint. General Motors LLC is a well-known automotive manufacturing
company. The Complainant owns hundreds of BUICK, CHEVROLET and CADILLAC trade-marks. The earliest of the BUICK, CHEVROLET and
CADILLAC trade-marks were registered in Canada in 1926, 1941 and 1926, respectively. The Domain Names were confusingly similar
because the addition of the words ‘certified’ and ‘service’ are likely to be
associated with motor vehicles and do not distinguish the Domain Names from the
Complainant’s trade-marks. The Panelist found that the multiple Domain Names
were registered in bad faith because the three registrations constituted a pattern
of abusive registrations.
You can read the decision here. http://cira.ca/assets/Documents/Legal/Dispute/2013/00231-buickcertifiedservice-ca.pdf
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