Saturday August
14th, 2004
Ticketmaster wins control of 108 domain names
Talk about a bad idea. Back in 2003, Bill Hicks registered over 100 domain names with the word "ticketmaster" in them. Ticketmaster is not only a registered trademark in the USA, it's registered in almost 80 other countries. Well it finally caught up to him as WIPO handed them right over to Ticketmaster last month.
You have to wonder what was he thinking? Even at GoDaddy's best discounted rate, that's over $600 down the drain. These domains are definitely not typo material (perhaps "ticketmasters" but that's about it) so advertising revenue could not possibly make up for the cost.
Ticketmaster Corporation v. Bill Hicks
You have to wonder what was he thinking? Even at GoDaddy's best discounted rate, that's over $600 down the drain. These domains are definitely not typo material (perhaps "ticketmasters" but that's about it) so advertising revenue could not possibly make up for the cost.
Ticketmaster Corporation v. Bill Hicks
The arbitrator first found that the domain names are confusingly similar to the TICKETMASTER mark. Indeed, 107 of the 108 domain names incorporate the entirety of the TICKETMASTER mark. As prior WIPO arbitration panels have ruled, the fact that a domain name wholly incorporates a registered mark of another is sufficient to establish confusing similarity. The only other domain name, ticktmasters.com, also was found to be confusingly similar to the TICKETMASTER mark because intentional typographical errors, as a matter of law, do not render a domain name dissimilar to a trademark.
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