{
    "case_number": "CAC-UDRP-104715",
    "time_of_filling": "2022-07-11 09:50:36",
    "domain_names": [
        "arcalormittel.com"
    ],
    "case_administrator": "Denisa Bilík (CAC) (Case admin)",
    "complainant": [
        "ARCELORMITTAL (SA)"
    ],
    "complainant_representative": "NAMESHIELD S.A.S.",
    "respondent": [
        "arcalormittel"
    ],
    "respondent_representative": null,
    "factual_background": "FACTS ASSERTED BY THE COMPLAINANT AND NOT CONTESTED BY THE RESPONDENT:\r\n\r\nThe Complainant is a global company specialized in steel production.  It is the largest steel producing company in the world and is the market leader in steel for use in automotive, construction, household appliances and packaging, with 69.1 million tonnes of crude steel made in 2021. It holds sizeable captive supplies of raw materials and operates extensive distribution networks.\r\n\r\nThe Complainant is the owner of International Registered Trademark no. 947686 in respect of the word mark ARCELORMITTAL, registered on August 3, 2007, and also owns an important domain name portfolio, such as the domain name <arcelormittal.com> registered since January 27, 2006. \r\n\r\nThe disputed domain name was registered on June 14, 2022 and resolves to a parking page with commercial links.\r\n\r\nIdentical or confusingly similar\r\n\r\nThe reversal of the letters “E” and “A” in the Complainant’s trademark is characteristic of a typosquatting practice intended to create confusing similarity between the Complainant’s trademark and the disputed domain name. Previous panels have found that slight spelling variations do not prevent a domain name from being confusingly similar to the Complainant’s trademark. The addition of the gTLD “.com” in the disputed domain name does not change the overall impression of connection to the Complainant’s trademark or prevent a likelihood of confusion between the disputed domain name and the Complainant, its trademark and its associated domain names.\r\n\r\nRights or legitimate interests\r\n\r\nThe Respondent has no rights or legitimate interests in respect of the disputed domain name and is not related in any way with the Complainant. The Complainant does not carry out any activity for, nor has any business with the Respondent. Neither license nor authorization has been granted by the Complainant to the Respondent to make any use of the Complainant’s trademark or to apply for registration of the disputed domain name.\r\n\r\nThe Complainant claims that the disputed domain name is a typosquatted version of its ARCELORMITTAL trademark. Typosquatting is the practice of registering a domain name in an attempt to take advantage of Internet users’ typographical errors and can evidence that a respondent lacks rights and legitimate interests in the domain name.\r\n\r\nThe disputed domain name resolves to a parking page with commercial links. Past panels have found that this is not a bona fide offering of goods or services or legitimate noncommercial or fair use.\r\n\r\nRegistered and used in bad faith\r\n\r\nThe Complainant contends that the disputed domain name is confusingly similar to its distinctive ARCELORMITTAL trademark.  Past panels have confirmed the notoriety of this trademark in a variety of cases.  Given such distinctiveness, it is reasonable to infer that the Respondent registered the disputed domain name in the full knowledge of the Complainant's trademark.  The Complainant asserts that the misspelling of the Complainant’s trademark was intentionally designed to be confusingly similar thereto.  Previous UDRP panels have seen such actions as evidence of bad faith.\r\n\r\nThe disputed domain name resolves to a parking page with commercial links. The Complainant contends that the Respondent has attempted to attract Internet users for commercial gain to its own website thanks to the Complainant’s trademark for its own commercial gain, which is evidence of bad faith.",
    "other_legal_proceedings": "The Panel is not aware of any other legal proceedings which are pending or decided and which 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 Policy).",
    "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 Policy).",
    "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 Policy).",
    "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": [
        "Andrew Lothian"
    ],
    "date_of_panel_decision": "2022-08-04 00:00:00",
    "informal_english_translation": "The Complainant is the owner of the following registered trademark in respect of the mark ARCELORMITTAL:\r\n\r\nInternational Registered Trademark no. 947686 for the word mark ARCELORMITTAL, registered on August 3, 2007 in Classes 6, 7, 9, 12, 19, 21, 39, 40, 41 and 42, and designated in respect of 45 territories.",
    "decision_domains": {
        "ARCALORMITTEL.COM": "TRANSFERRED"
    },
    "panelist": null,
    "panellists_text": null
}