YCD.ca Transferred To Complainant (1.Viewing)

Dispute Number: DCA-17100-CIRA
Domain Name: <ycd.ca>.
Complainant: Nanaimo Airport Commission, Nanaimo, Canada
Registrant: Chris Stewart
Registrar: Namespro.ca
Panel: The Honourable Neil Anthony Brown KC (Chair), Leslie E. Maerov, FCIArb and
James Plotkin, Q.Arb.
Service Provider: Canadian International Internet Dispute Resolution Center

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https://ciidrc.org/wp-content/uploa...ted-Decision-ycd.ca-September-22-2022-SGD.pdf
The owner wanted no less than $10,000 and these guys offered $3,000. They went with Plan B and filed UDRP and got the domain.

That is complete BS.

This is apparently the nail in the coffin:

“The evidence of the Wayback Machine shows that from January 2014 it carried depictions of an airliner taking off and an airliner landing and the words “Arrivals” and “Departures”. The Registrant at one point stated that Voodoo was responsible for the content of whatever web page it was that was captured by the Wayback Machine. It certainly showed that someone was well aware that the domain name had a connection with an airport and the arrival and departure of aircraft. The icons of the aircraft look suspiciously like a promotion of the domain name and its possible sale on the basis that it is connected with an airport and that it might be of particular value and interest to someone connected with airports, airlines or aviation or merely someone who would like to make money from it.

The Panel’s concern is that this evidence has appeared, but with no explanation from the Registrant as to whether he knew about it or did anything to deter it. As the evidence shows this landing page with the “arrival” and “departure” buttons had been hosted at the domain name for some time, the Panel is prepared to infer that the Registrant was aware of it. Clearly, the Panel is limited in the conclusions it can reach on the limited evidence, but the icons on the web page to which the domain name resolved, only weaken the Registrant’s case that his buying and keeping and offering the domain name for sale had nothing to with its being the IATA code for Nanaimo Airport.”