FACTS ASSERTED BY THE COMPLAINANT AND NOT CONTESTED BY THE RESPONDENT:
The Complainant is the leading Italian banking group and also one of the protagonists in the European financial arena. Intesa Sanpaolo is the company resulting from the merger (effective as of January 1, 2007) between Banca Intesa S.p.A. and Sanpaolo IMI S.p.A., two of the top Italian banking groups.
Intesa Sanpaolo is among the top banking groups in the euro zone, with a market capitalization exceeding 34,8 billion euro, and the leader in Italy, in many business areas (retail, corporate and wealth management). Thanks to a network of approximately 3,700 branches capillary and well distributed throughout the country, with market shares of more than 16% in most Italian regions, the Group offers its services to approximately 11,8 million customers. Intesa Sanpaolo has a strong presence in Central-Eastern Europe with a network of approximately 1.100 branches and over 7,2 million customers. Moreover, the international network specialized in supporting corporate customers is present in 25 countries, in particular in the Mediterranean area and those areas where Italian companies are most active, such as the United States, Russia, China and India.
The Complainant is the owner, among others, of the following registrations for the trademarks “INTESA’ and ‘INTESA SANPAOLO”.
The Complainant is also the owner of the domain names consisting of the prefix <INTESASANPAOLO> followed by the following gTLDs and ccTLDs: .COM, .ORG, .EU, .INFO, .NET, .BIZ.
The Complainant is also the owner of the domain names consisting of the prefix <INTESA> followed by the following gTLDs and ccTLDs: .COM, .INFO, .BIZ, .ORG, .US, .EU, .CN, .IN, .CO.UK, .TEL, .NAME, .XXX, .ME.
On April 24, 2020, the Respondent registered the disputed domain name <INTESA-SANPAOLO-ANTIFRODE.INFO>.
The Respondent listed its address as being in Italy.
The disputed domain name consists of the Respondent's trademark followed by the Italian word "ANTIFRODE" which translates into English as "ANTI-FRAUD".
At the time of the Complaint the disputed domain name did not resolve to a website.
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