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Not dropping the catch: respondent wins in UDRP complaint

24 July 2023

Datacap Systems Inc, which asserted common law rights in DATACAP, sought the transfer of ‘datacap.com’ under the UDRP. The panel found that the use of a ‘drop-catch’ service to acquire a domain name does not necessarily mean that a respondent was acting in bad faith. There was no evidence that the term ‘datacap’ was uniquely associated with the complainant.