The Complainant is a Chinese video game development company founded in 2011 and today have around 5,000 employees. In addition to game products such as GENSHIN IMPACT, Honkai Impact 3rd, Tears of Themis, Honkai: Star Rail, and Zenless Zone Zero, the Complainant and its subsidiaries also launched the dynamic desktop software N0va Desktop and created a variety of products such as animations, comics, music, novels, and merchandise around its original creative concepts.
GENSHIN IMPACT is an action role-playing game launched by the Complainant and its affiliates in 2020. The game has received positive reviews and, across all platforms, the game had a gross revenue of more than $1 billion by the end of 2022.<\/p>\n
The fame and the value of GENSHIN IMPACT trademark determines to be considered well-known for UDRP purposes.<\/p>\n
The Complainant owns a portfolio of domain names incorporating the GENSHIN IMPACT trademark including <genshinimpact.com>, registered on June 7, 2019.<\/p>\n
The disputed domain name resolved to a website showing the “Genshin Impact” word, and another Complainant game name “Honkai Star Rail”. The disputed domain name also showed pictures and characters from the Complainant´s official games. Currently the access to the website to which the disputed domain name directs is automatically blocked and is therefore considered as inactive. <\/p>\n
The disputed domain name was registered on December 22, 2022.<\/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": "
COMPLAINANT:<\/p>\n
The Complainant contends that it has satisfied each of the elements required under the Policy for a transfer of the disputed domain name.<\/p>\n
In particular, the Complainant submits that the Respondent’s action results in a great risk of confusing Internet users, who search for the GENSHIN IMPACT game, about the website’s origin and affiliation with the Complainant.<\/p>\n
The Respondent´s purpose in registering the disputed domain names was solely to attract, for commercial gain, Internet users to its own web site, by creating a likelihood of confusion with the Complainant´s mark as to the source, sponsorship, affiliation, or endorsement of the Respondent´s web site.<\/p>\n
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RESPONDENT<\/p>\n
No administratively compliant Response was 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": [ "Manuel Moreno-Torres" ], "date_of_panel_decision": "2024-05-16 00:00:00", "informal_english_translation": "
The Complainant is the holder of several trademarks including the following:
• GENSHIN IMPACT, international figurative mark No.1635794, registered on August 11, 2021.
• GENSHIN IMPACT, Chinese word mark No. 38546704, registered on January, 28, 2020.<\/p>",
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