GENEVA — The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has ruled in favor of fan site JustFor.fans in a case against a website using an infringing domain.
JFF Publications LLC, which operates JustFor.fans, filed a complaint in June with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center about the domain justforfans.app.
According to the WIPO administrative panel’s ruling in the case, a registrant in Estonia, listed as Ogandi Peraza, used the confusingly similar domain name “to attract Internet users by taking unfair advantage” of JustFor.fans’ reputation. The disputed domain provided a subscription service and platform deemed “very similar” to the actual JustFor.fans platform, amounting to “opportunistic bad faith” under WIPO rules.
The registrant also registered an Estonian trade mark for “justforfans” in 2023. The WIPO ruling labeled this action as likely being “an attempt to mask the bad faith targeting of the Complainant or otherwise circumvent or prevent the Complainant’s exercise of its rights.”
As a result, the panel ordered the fraudulent domain to be transferred to JFF.
The registrant failed to respond to WIPO inquiries about the matter during the investigation.
