The Complainant is a Danish shoe and leather accessories manufacturer founded in 1963, who opened its first retail store in Denmark in 1982. The Complainant is family-owned and employs 21,300 people worldwide, with product sales in 101 countries from over 2,250 shops and more than 14,000 sales points, having operations in Asia, Eastern and Central Europe, Canada, South America, and the United States. Throughout the 1980s, the company expanded its operations internationally. By 1982, sales reached 1 million pairs of shoes annually. In order to accommodate the increasing demand, additional production was established in Portugal, and under license in Japan and Cyprus. The Complainant built its own research and design center, named \"Futura\", in Denmark in 1996, and since 2009, Portugal is the R&D center of the Complainant and also such has opened its own beam house in Indonesia as well as a tannery in Thailand a few years later. In 1998 the first flagship retail store opened on Oxford Street, in London. By 2000, the Complainant owned every step of the production process, from design and leather production to branded retail sales. The Complainant owns tanneries in the Netherlands, Thailand, Indonesia and China. Approximately 98% of the Complainant's shoes are produced in its own shoe factories in Portugal, Slovakia, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam and China, and some under license in India.<\/p>\n
The Complainant owns ECCO trademarks, as cited above.<\/span><\/p>\n In addition, the Complainant owns domain names consisting in the wording “ECCO”, such as <ecco.com> and <ecco.eu>.<\/span><\/p>\n All ten Disputed Domain Names <eccoireland-ie.com>, <ecconederland-nl.com>, <eccoportugal-pt.com>, <eccoromania-ro.com>, <eccojapan-jp.com>, <eccobelgie-be.com>, <eccochile-cl.com>, <eccophilippines-ph.com>, <eccopolska-pl.com> and <eccoturkey-tr.com> were all registered on 29 June 2024. All ten Disputed Domain Names resolve to similar websites, including but not limited to having a similar layout, use of the ECCO trademark of the Complainant, selling of goods bearing the Complainant’s marks, the products being sold disproportionately below market value, all of Disputed Domain Names having the same registrar and the same hosting provider.<\/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 Names .<\/p>\n <\/p>\n PRELIMINARY ISSUE:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n According to the Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy, a complaint may relate to more than one domain name, provided that the domain names are registered by the same domain-name holder.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In this case, the complaint relates to ten domain names, <eccoireland-ie.com>, <ecconederland-nl.com>, <eccoportugal-pt.com>, <eccoromania-ro.com>, <eccojapan-jp.com>, <eccobelgie-be.com>, <eccochile-cl.com>, <eccophilippines-ph.com>, <eccopolska-pl.com> and <eccoturkey-tr.com>, and although they seem to have different registrants, considering the information received from the registrar of these domain names, the Disputed Domain Names resolve to similar websites, including but not limited having a similar layout, use of the ECCO trademark of the Complainant, sell of goods bearing the Complainant’s marks, the products being sold disproportionately below market value, all of Disputed Domain Names being registered the same day, 29 June 2024, having the same registrar and the same hosting provider.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Panel agrees that either the registrant of the Disputed Domains Names is the same person and\/or entity, or at the very least all ten of them are under the common control of the same person and thus, the complaint is receivable as a single one for all ten Disputes Domain Names.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>",
"no_response_filed": " The Complainant contends that the requirements of the Policy have been met and that the Disputed Domain Names should be transferred to it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The Complainant's contentions are the following: The Disputed Domain Names are confusingly similar to the Complainant's earlier trademarks ECCO, that the Respondent lacks rights or legitimate interests in the Disputed Domain Names for a number of reasons and that the disputed domain names were registered and are being used in bad faith.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n No administratively compliant Response has been filed. The Complainant has, to the satisfaction of the Panel, shown the Disputed Domain Names are 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 Respondents to have no rights or legitimate interests in respect of the Disputed Domain Names (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 Names have been registered and are 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": [
"Delia-Mihaela Belciu"
],
"date_of_panel_decision": "2025-01-24 00:00:00",
"informal_english_translation": " The Complainant bases its Complaint on the following ECCO trademarks:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>",
"decision_domains": {
"eccoireland-ie.com": "TRANSFERRED",
"ecconederland-nl.com": "TRANSFERRED",
"eccoportugal-pt.com": "TRANSFERRED",
"eccoromania-ro.com": "TRANSFERRED",
"eccojapan-jp.com": "TRANSFERRED",
"eccobelgie-be.com": "TRANSFERRED",
"eccochile-cl.com": "TRANSFERRED",
"eccophilippines-ph.com": "TRANSFERRED",
"eccopolska-pl.com": "TRANSFERRED",
"eccoturkey-tr.com": "TRANSFERRED"
},
"panelist": null,
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}\n