The Complainant is Ontario’s largest independent deck
design, supplier and builder with showrooms in Toronto, Oakville, Oshawa and
Milton. The Complainant’s trade name is
The Deck Store Inc., has been using the web site thedeckstore.ca, and asserts common
law trade-mark rights in THE DECK STORE. The Registrant registered the
Domain Name on June 1, 2013. The
Registrant is a former supplier of the Complainant, owns several hundred domain
names including several with ‘deckstore’ in its name, and is owed several
thousands of dollars by the Complainant in unpaid bills.
The Panel found that the Domain Name was registered in bad
faith, amongst other things, because of the cybersquatting elements associated
with this registration – especially given that the Registrant indicated it
would be willing to transfer the domain once the Complainant pays its unpaid
bills.
You can read the decision here.
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