The Complainant is a professional football club based in Liverpool, United Kingdom. The football club was founded in 1892. It is now one of the most widely supported football clubs in the world. The club has won nineteen League titles, seven FA Cups, a record eight League Cups and fifteen FA Community Shields. In international club competitions, the club has secured six European Cups, more than any other English football club, three UEFA Cups, four UEFA Super Cups and one FIFA Club World Cup<\/p>\n
The domain name <liverpoolfc.tv> had been used for the purposes of a website at www.liverpoolfc.tv since as early as 2000, serving as the official website for the Complainant at the time, and which provides news, statistics and other information on the club, as well as selling match tickets and club merchandise. In 2002, the Complainant began to use the domain name <liverpoolfc.com> as its primary website for the club, initially as a redirect to www.liverpoolfc.tv, and then as a website at www.liverpoolfc.com in its own right. Aside from <liverpoolfc.tv> and <liverpoolfc.com>, the Complainant owns various other domain names comprising of the LIVERPOOL FC term, including <liverpoolfc.co.uk> .<\/p>\n
The disputed domain name was registered 25 years ago on 20 November 2000 but was only acquired by the Respondent, Mr Court, on 12 December 2024. It resolves to a parking page. The Panel visited that on 19 February 2025. It was a parking page with 5 football related links including one that said “Liverpool Tickets,” the others said “Watch Live Soccer,” “Champions League,” “Football Results,” “Football News.” None of the links resolved when clicked on. <\/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": "
The Complainant contends that the requirements of the Policy have been met and that the disputed domain name should be transferred to it.
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 not, 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 not, 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": "Rejected", "panelists": [ "Victoria McEvedy" ], "date_of_panel_decision": "2025-02-19 00:00:00", "informal_english_translation": "
The Complainant is the Liverpool Football Club and Athletic Grounds Limited. It owns numerous trademark registrations comprising of “LIVERPOOL FOOTBALL CLUB”, “LFC” as well as “LIVERPOOL FC.” It relies in particular on the following:<\/p>\n
1.The UK mark no. 907624565 for the word mark, LIVERPOOL FC, was first registered on June 30, 2008 in classes 6,18,21,24 & 25 and is a clone of the same EUTM.<\/p>\n
The Complainant says it is a famous mark and that previous panels have acknowledged that, for example in WIPO Case No. D2002-0046. <\/p>", "decision_domains": { "LIVERPOOLFCTICKETS.COM": "REJECTED" }, "panelist": null, "panellists_text": null }