International Olympic Committee (IOC) has filed UDRP over the domain names aoyunhui.com and aoyunhui.net in June 2022:
Basically, the domain names are a combination of two chinese words ‘aoyun’ 奥运 (to mean Olympics) and ‘hui’ (to mean games or meeting 会) when combined, that means Olympic Games (奥运会):
The Complainant The International Olympic Committee (IOC) was founded in 1894 and has rights in OLYMPIC since the last many decades. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is quite active in enforcing its rights against cybersquatting Domain Names. The other recent cases, which are either active or were transferred in 2022, are:
- D2022-1873: fasterhigherstrongertogether.com
- D2022-0399: 2022beijingolympics.com and more
- DIR2022-0008: olympics.ir
- DIO2022-0020: olympia.io
- D2022-0428: olympicsliveonline.com
- D2022-0448: olypmics.com
- D2022-0228: olympic-ioco-wso-wsmaf-wmaf-imac-wimaf-wmmaf-gmmaf-wfff.org
- D2022-0209: olympgames.com
- D2021-3638: olympicstreams.me and olympicstreams.net
- D2021-4003: olympicstreams.net
The disputed Domain Names aoyunhui.com and aoyunhui.net have registration dates of 2001 and 2004 respectively. They have the following visible WHOIS information as to ownership of domain names with Asian registrants:
Domain Name: AOYUNHUI.COM
Creation Date: 2001-05-31T05:32:32Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2023-05-31T05:32:32Z
Registrar: GoDaddy.com, LLC
Registrant Name: Domain Administrator
Registrant Organization: Informative Portals Limited
Registrant Street: 2003, 20F, Tower 5, China Hong Kong City
Registrant Street: 33 Canton Road, Tsimshatsui, Kowloon
Registrant City: Hong Kong
Registrant State/Province:
Registrant Postal Code: 852
Registrant Country: HK
Registrant Phone: +852.64888204
Registrant Email: admin@informativeportals.com
Domain Name: AOYUNHUI.NET
Creation Date: 2004-11-10T13:14:16Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2022-11-10T13:14:16Z
Registrar: eName Technology Co.,Ltd.
Registrant State/Province: gan su
Registrant Country: CN
Registrant Email: https://whois.ename.net/contact/aoyunhui.net
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