{
    "case_number": "CAC-UDRP-102948",
    "time_of_filling": "2020-03-11 10:22:24",
    "domain_names": [
        "roland--garros.com"
    ],
    "case_administrator": "Šárka Glasslová (Case admin)",
    "complainant": [
        "FEDERATION FRANCAISE DE TENNIS (FFT)"
    ],
    "complainant_representative": "Nameshield (Enora Millocheau)",
    "respondent": [
        "Osman Goni"
    ],
    "respondent_representative": null,
    "factual_background": "Complainant states: “Founded in 1920, the FEDERATION FRANCAISE DE TENNIS (the Complainant) promotes, organizes and develops tennis in France. It counts about 978 893 licensees in 2019. The Complainant also provides representation of France in international meetings and organizes major tournaments such as the International of France at Roland Garros.\r\n\r\n“The International of France of Roland Garros, also called ‘French Open’, is the biggest tournament of the tennis season on clay and the only Grand Slam still competing on that surface.”\r\n\r\nThe Disputed Domain Name was created on February 16, 2020, and is being used in connection with what Complainant describes as “a Registrar parking page.”\r\n\r\nParagraph 4(a)(i): Complainant states, inter alia, that the Disputed Domain Name is confusingly similar to the ROLAND GARROS Trademark because “the addition of two dashes in the disputed domain name is not sufficient to avoid the likelihood of confusion.”\r\n\r\nParagraph 4(a)(ii): Complainant states that Respondent has no rights or legitimate interests in the Disputed Domain Name because, inter alia, “Respondent is not identified in the Whois database as the disputed domain name”; Complainant “does not carry out any activity for, nor has any business with the Respondent”; “[n]either license nor authorization has been granted to the Respondent to make any use of the Complainant’s trademark ROLAND GARROS, or apply for registration of the disputed domain name by the Complainant”; and “Respondent did not make any use of disputed domain name since its registration, and it confirms that Respondent has no demonstrable plan to use the disputed domain name.”\r\n\r\nParagraph 4(a)(iii): Complainant states that the Disputed Domain Name was registered and is being used in bad faith because, inter alia, “[p]ast Panels have held that the ROLAND GARROS trademark is well-known”; “a Google search on the expression ROLAND GARROS displays several results, all of them being related to the Complainant and the tournament”; “[g]iven the distinctiveness of the Complainant’s trademark and reputation, the Complainant can state that the Respondent has registered the disputed domain name with full knowledge of the Complainant’s trademark ROLAND GARROS®, and therefore could not ignore the Complainant”; and because “the disputed domain name resolves to a Registrar parking page… the Respondent has not demonstrated any activity in respect of the disputed domain name, and it is not possible to conceive of any plausible actual or contemplated active use of the domain name by the Respondent that would not be illegitimate, such as by being a passing off, an infringement of consumer protection legislation, or an infringement of the Complainant’s rights under trademark law.”\r\n",
    "other_legal_proceedings": "The Panel is not aware of any other legal proceedings that are pending or decided and that relate to the Disputed Domain Name.",
    "no_response_filed": "No administratively compliant response has been filed.",
    "rights": "The Complainant has, to the satisfaction of the Panel, shown the Disputed Domain Name is identical or confusingly similar to a trademark or service mark in which the Complainant has rights (within the meaning of paragraph 4(a)(i) of the UDRP).",
    "no_rights_or_legitimate_interests": "The Complainant has, to the satisfaction of the Panel, shown the Respondent to have no rights or legitimate interests in respect of the Disputed Domain Name (within the meaning of paragraph 4(a)(ii) of the UDRP).",
    "bad_faith": "The Complainant has, to the satisfaction of the Panel, shown the Disputed Domain Name has been registered and is being used in bad faith (within the meaning of paragraph 4(a)(iii) of the UDRP).",
    "procedural_factors": "The Panel is satisfied that all procedural requirements under UDRP were met and there is no other reason why it would be inappropriate to provide a decision.",
    "decision": "Accepted",
    "panelists": [
        "Douglas M. Isenberg"
    ],
    "date_of_panel_decision": "2020-04-06 00:00:00",
    "informal_english_translation": "Complainant states, and provides evidence to support, that it is “the owner of numerous trademarks containing the expression ‘ROLAND GARROS’, such as the international trademarks ROLAND GARROS n°459517 registered since 1981-04-01 and RG ROLAND GARROS registered since 2017-01-24.”  These marks are referred to hereafter as the “ROLAND GARROS Trademark.”",
    "decision_domains": {
        "ROLAND--GARROS.COM": "TRANSFERRED"
    },
    "panelist": null,
    "panellists_text": null
}