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Good-faith acquisition poisons bad-faith argument

11 September 2023

Hemlock Farms sought the transfer of ‘hemlockfarms.com’, ‘hemlockfarms.net’ and ‘hemlockfarmspa.com’ under the UDRP. The panel noted that the respondent had acquired the domain names when she purchased a real estate agency. At least one of the domain names had been used by this agency or its predecessor from 2000 without any pushback from the complainant.