a. Applicable Disputes. You are required to submit to a mandatory administrative proceeding in the event that a third party (a "complainant") asserts to the applicable Provider, in compliance with the Rules of Procedure that:
(i) your domain name is identical or confusingly similar to a name [Note 1], trademark or service mark in which the complainant has rights; and
(ii) you have no rights or legitimate interests in respect of the domain name [Note 2]; and
(iii) your domain name has been registered or subsequently used in bad faith.
Re:Why Groupon is not in Australia (domain squatter)
by jellicle on Wednesday January 05, 2011 @08:32AM
(#2070877)
Ok, do tell: Please describe the name (Australian personal or business name) that Groupon USA has rights in, to which the groupon.com.au domain is confusingly similar.
auDA have a very clear stance against this kind of squatting (from http://www.auda.org.au/policies/auda-2010-05/);
a. Applicable Disputes. You are required to submit to a mandatory administrative proceeding in the event that a third party (a "complainant") asserts to the applicable Provider, in compliance with the Rules of Procedure that:
(i) your domain name is identical or confusingly similar to a name [Note 1], trademark or service mark in which the complainant has rights; and
(ii) you have no rights or legitimate interests in respect of the domain name [Note 2]; and
(iii) your domain name has been registered or subsequently used in bad faith.