Yahoo Wins ToHackYahoo.com Domain Name in Arbitration

An arbitrator with the National Arbitration Forum has recently awarded the domain name ToHackYahoo.com to Yahoo.The company submitted the complaint on July 16,2014.

According to whois records, the domain name was first registered in April 2014.

Yahoo owns many trademark registrations for the “Yahoo” mark all over the world.Therefore,it is more than obvious that the disputed domain name is confusingly similar with its trademark .Moreover,the company contended in the complaint that the respondent has no rights or legitimate interests in the disputed domain name and that the respondent registered and used the disputed domain name in bad faith .

One of the key points of this complaint was when Yahoo managed to demonstrate that the respondent registered and used the disputed domain name in bad faith,by offering hacking application and malicious software on the website

Yahoo managed to establish all three elements required under the ICANN Policy and the Panel ordered the disputed domain name to be transferred from the respondent to the complainant.

You can read the decision here .