LOS ANGELES — An arbitrator on Monday suspended three domain names used by an entrepreneur — Pornhub.red, RedTube.kim and YouPorn.click — after MindGeek, which holds trademarks for the brand names, filed a UDRP complaint with ICANN.
MindGeek, in its cybersquatting complaint, contended that its trademarks for Pornhub, RedTube and YouPorn are tremendously famous due to the amount of visits in connection with adult entertainment services. It also noted that all three websites at the center of the case offered similar content — streamed adult scenes — and sought rapid suspension.
Each of the domains in the case hold the famous MindGeek marks but employ new top-level domain name extensions, according to the complaint.
The identity of the entrepreneur, who built the sites, was unknown because he or she used a privacy service.
“The complainant asserts, in addition, that after reviewing the information publicly reachable on the whois database of the domain names, it appears that the respondent registered them several years after the registration of the famous trademarks basis of the claim,” examiner Luz Helena Villamil Jimenez wrote. “Moreover, these domain names resolve to websites offering adult videos pertaining to the complainant core services, and contain links to the complainants’ websites and logos trying to impersonate it.”
Jimenez, finding “clear and convincing evidence” in the case, ordered the three domain names suspended for the duration of the registrations under the URS (uniform rapid suspension) procedure.
