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 capitalisation exceeding 38, billion euro, and leader in Italy in many business areas (retail, corporate and wealth management). Thanks to a network of approximately 4,200 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 11.9 million customers. Intesa Sanpaolo has a strong presence in Central-Eastern Europe with a network of approximately 1.100 branches and over 7,5 million customers. Moreover, the international network specialised 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 owns a number of trade mark registrations in a number of jurisdictions for the trademarks INTESA SANPAOLO and INTESA. This includes the EU trademark registration referred to above.
The Complainant is the owner of the following domain names: <INTESASANPAOLO.COM>, <INTESASANPAOLO.ORG>, <INTESASANPAOLO.EU>, <INTESASANPAOLO.INFO>, <INTESASANPAOLO.NET>, <INTESASANPAOLO.BIZ>, <INTESA-SANPAOLO.COM>, <INTESA-SANPAOLO.ORG>, <INTESA-SANPAOLO.EU>, <INTESA-SANPAOLO.INFO>, <INTESA-SANPAOLO.NET> and <INTESA-SANPAOLO.BIZ>. All of them are connected to the Complainant's official website located at http://www.intesasanpaolo.com.
On 20 February 2019 the Respondent registered the disputed domain name <INTESASANPAOLOS.COM>.
The Respondent has registered the disputed domain name in name of "Coil services (Byron King)". The Respondent is not commonly known by the name "INTESASANPAOLOS" and had no known rights to the name.
The disputed domain name does not divert users to a website and it appears there has been no usage of the domain name by the Respondent .
On 4 March 2019 the Complainant’s attorneys sent to the Respondent a cease and desist letter, asking for the voluntary transfer of the disputed domain name to their client. The Respondent never replied to such communication.
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