I noticed there was a UDRP filing for Kooks.com at WIPO:

http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/c...0200-0399.html (case D2008-0233)

In response, it appears the owners of the domain are simply suing in court instead. See the lander at www.kooks.com that mentions their reverse hijacking suit. The links for the UDRP complaint, and the lawsuit complaint don't seem to work at this time, but it appears legitimate, given their experience in defending their use of "Spam Arrest."

Very interesting - thanks! I can't wait until they post the complaint. I wish them the best of luck.

I see that the following are available.

KooksSucks.com
KookSucks.com
AntiKooks.com

The complainant's website is apparently at:

http://www.kookscustomheaders.com/

so you can see why they'd want to shorten their domain, as it's currently 18 letters long.

I just hope they win at both venues now

The links to the UDRP complaint and the lawsuit complaint now work on the www.kooks.com website, i.e.

http://www.kooks.com/pdfs/kooks-udrp.pdf
http://www.kooks.com/pdfs/complaint.pdf

bastards

Looking forward to the outcome on this one. Plaintiff (Global DNS) is claiming the Defendant (Kook's Custom Headers) obtained their USPTO trademark by fraud and consequently the trademark should be cancelled.

Ron Jackson included it in today's lowdown posting.

http://dnjournal.com/lowdown.htm

Looking forward to the outcome on this one. Plaintiff (Global DNS) is claiming the Defendant (Kook's Custom Headers) obtained their USPTO trademark by fraud and consequently the trademark should be cancelled.

Just because they were incorporated in 1996 doesn't mean rights weren't passed to the newly incorporated company that do date back to 1962.

This isn't as clear cut as domainers are making out imo - those links in the complaint are the domain holders responsibility.

You're right, Safesys. It looks like an overoptimized DomainSponsor landing page, given the screenshots in the UDRP complaint.

However, I think it'll be difficult to show bad faith registration of the domain name (as opposed to "use"). I've seen a lot of internet kooks, but had never heard of "Kooks Custom Headers", and that's likely the case for a lot of people!

BTW, the ladies at the top right of:

http://www.kookscustomheaders.com/

might give the GoDaddy Girls a run for their money.

Originally posted by safesys

This isn't as clear cut as domainers are making out imo - those links in the complaint are the domain holders responsibility.

Sort of off topic, but related: For domains that don't get any or much traffic, would it be safer not to have a parking page? It would seem to minimize the risk that safesys mentions without significantly reducing revenue.

Yeah, or at least a park page where every link has been manually chosen - that way you're not open to some automated process putting potentially trademark infringing links on the page and you having to rely on a panelist absolving responsibility for them.

Thanks!

Originally posted by safesys
a park page where every link has been manually chosen

Which parking companies offer this?