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Vivendi Universal filed a complaint to seize the domain VivendiUniversalSucks.com from Jay David Sallen for being "confusingly similar" to their trademark.

On 7 November 2001, WIPO decided 2-1 to transfer the domain to Vivendi Universal.

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• "Sucks" Domain Name Must Be Awarded to Company, WIPO Panel Says

  http://www.politechbot.com/p-02810.html
  News of the decision and a reply by J.D. Sallen. [Politech]

• Domain Arbitrators Favor Big Companies

  http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20011204/0114202.shtml
  "A guy registered the domain VivendiUniversalSucks.com, and Vivendi Universal brought it up with an arbitration panel saying they deserved the rights to the name. The arbitration panel sided with the big company, for reasons that still don't make much sense." News and discussion forum. [Techdirt]

• UDRP Ruling in Vivendiuniversalsucks.com Dispute

  http://www.icannwatch.org/article.pl?sid=01/11/17/173121
  "Although, as its (for now) owner, it is my speech rights that are being squashed, I got a good laugh out of the decision. Have they no shame?" News and discussion forum. [ICANNWatch]

• WIPO Awards 'Sucks' Domain to Vivendi

  http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/11/17/1548202
  "It's so unjust as to be farcical. When the domain name holder makes a sarcastic comment that he wasn't making any money off the domain, the esteemed Panel takes that as evidence that he wants to sell the domain." Editorial and discussion forum. [Slashdot]

• WIPO Decision: Vivendi Universal v. J.D. Sallen

  http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisions/html/2001/d2001-1121.html
  Text of 2-1 WIPO decision to transfer vivendiuniversalsucks.com from J.D. Sallen to Vivendi Universal.

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