The Complainant is a Swedish based e-commerce company that provides various online financial payment services. It trades under the trade mark KLARNA.<\/p>\n
The Complainant has more than 5,000 employees, most of them working at the headquarters in Stockholm. As of 2011, about 40% of all e-commerce sales in Sweden went through KLARNA. It is currently one of Europe’s largest banks and is providing payment solutions for over 150 million consumers across 500,000 merchants in 45 countries. In 2021, the company generated $80 billion in gross merchandise volume. It currently facilitates over 2 million online transactions per day.<\/p>\n
The Complainant owns various trademarks consisting of the word KLARNA, including the above mentioned EU trademark. It also is the registrant for many domain names containing the word KLARNA.<\/p>\n
The disputed domain name was registered recently on 14 March 2023. It resolves to a webpage that contains content which triggers a security warning when using a Chrome browser. The security warning issued by a Chrome browser contained the following words:<\/p>\n
\"Deceptive site ahead\". <\/em><\/p>\n Attackers on klarna-finance.com may trick you into doing something dangerous like installing software or revealing your personal information (for example, passwords, phone numbers, of credit cards). Learn more<\/em><\/p>\n Google Safe Browsing recently detected phishing on klarna-finance.com. Phishing sites pretend to be other websites to trick you.<\/em>\"<\/p>\n In the registration details for the disputed domain name the Respondent provided its name as \"Justus Smith\" and an address in Seychelles. The Complainant sent two cease and desist demands to the Respondent and received no responses.<\/p>",
"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.<\/p>",
"no_response_filed": " NO ADMINISTRATIVELY COMPLIANT RESPONSE HAS BEEN FILED.<\/p>",
"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).<\/p>",
"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).<\/p>",
"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).<\/p>",
"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.<\/p>",
"decision": "Accepted",
"panelists": [
"Andrew Sykes"
],
"date_of_panel_decision": "2023-07-18 00:00:00",
"informal_english_translation": " EU trademark registration number 009199803 KLARNA registered on 6 December 2010 for various services in classes 35 and 36, including \"financial affairs\".<\/p>",
"decision_domains": {
"klarna-finance.com": "TRANSFERRED"
},
"panelist": null,
"panellists_text": null
}