The Complainant is a leading French audiovisual media group, particularly in the field of pay-TV services for which it has 22 million subscribers. It trades under its principal mark CANAL+ or CANAL PLUS and has registered the latter presentation as an International trademark under nos. 509729 (since 16 March 1987 in classes 9, 16, 35, 38 and 41) and 619540 (since 5 May 1994 in classes 9, 16, 25, 28, 35, 38 and 41). The Complainant has also registered multiple domain names containing the words "canal plus" including canalplus.com and canal-plus.com, registered since 20 May 2006 and 28 March 1996 respectively.
The disputed domain name, canalplus.one, was registered on 21 July 2021 and resolves to a parking page.
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