Canadian Tire loses fight for CrappyTire.com (3.Viewing)

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Here's some more CT domain news in case you haven't had enough.

It's from 2001 but still interesting, and funny:


Canadian Tire Corp. has lost its bid to wrest control of the "crappytire.com" Web site from a London, Ont. man.

A Canadian abitrator appointed by the Geneva-based World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) ruled that the retailer cannot claim the right to the expression.
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In its original complaint to WIPO, Canadian Tire argued it is "colloquially referred to or known as Crappy Tire."

" The term Crappy Tire is a slang expression derived from the Canadian Tire trade marks [and is] frequently used by younger Canadian Tire customers," the company said. "In the vast majority of cases, the usage does not have a negative connotation but is an impertinent reference to a mass merchandiser."

"Since when is the world "Canadian" interchangeable with or similar to "crappy"," countered McFadden in his submission to WIPO.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canadian-tire-loses-fight-for-www-crappytire-com-1.294510

https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisions/html/2001/d2001-0383.html
 
Kind of surprised to see that it doesn’t resolve to anything. Not even a contact us or anything.
 
Canadian Tire owns the domain now, so is there a further story about CT buying it?

Registrant:
Name: DNSadmin CTC
Organization: Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited
 
DomainRecap said:
Canadian Tire owns the domain now, so is there a further story about CT buying it?
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You need to stop posting at the exact same time as me. If you recall, this happened at NP as well. This is getting ridiculous!!! :lol:
 
DomainRecap said:
Canadian Tire owns the domain now, so is there a further story about CT buying it?

Registrant:
Name: DNSadmin CTC
Organization: Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited
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Nice catch.

I haven't found any details but someone on this Wikipedia "talk page" says CT has owned it since June 2006: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Canadian_Tire

It's also a little strange that the respondent won the WIPO case in 2001 and yet whois shows it was last registered in Nov 2002... Looks like the guy let it drop (after winning?), someone else bought it, and then sold it to CT later (maybe in 2006, but I can't find any proof of that)?

Not sure what CT does/did to take so much heat but there's also a forum/website dedicated to making complaints against them: CanadianTireSucks.net
 
Check out the Archive.org results - it looks like it was transferred all over the place, and CT was probably running after them, threatening lawsuits like the little bully that it is.

The problem with CT is that they are independently owned and operated, so you get almost no consistency between stores, and if your local CT is owned by a jerk, you will get treated like you're dealing with a jerk, especially in the more rural areas where there is less competition.

Plus, they sell a LOT of absolute China-Crap TM, and at times, can have very dodgy return policies.
 
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