{ "case_number": "CAC-UDRP-107555", "time_of_filling": "2025-05-13 09:22:51", "domain_names": [ "alibabany.net" ], "case_administrator": "Olga Dvořáková (Case admin)", "complainant": [ "Alibaba Group Holding Limited" ], "complainant_representative": "Convey srl", "respondent": [ "lixx xx" ], "respondent_representative": null, "factual_background": "

The Complainant is a Chinese multinational company specialized in e-commerce, retail, Internet, and technology. Founded on June 28, <\/span>1999 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, the company provides consumer-to-consumer (C2C), business-to-consumer (B2C), and business-to-business (B2B) sales services via Chinese and global marketplaces, as well as local consumer, digital media and entertainment, logistics and cloud computing services. It owns and operates a diverse portfolio of companies around the world in numerous business sectors, such as the following ones: Alibaba (China Co.) Ltd., Alibaba.com Corporation and Alibaba Innovation Private Limited.<\/p>\n

Alibaba is one of the world's largest retailers and e-commerce companies. In 2020, it was also rated as the fifth-largest artificial intelligence company. It is also one of the biggest venture capital firms and investment corporations in the world, as well as the second largest financial services group behind Visa via its fintech arm Ant Group. The company hosts the largest B2B (Alibaba.com), C2C (Taobao), and B2C (Tmall) marketplaces in the world. It has been expanding into the media industry, with revenues rising by triple percentage points year after year. It also set the record on the 2018 edition of China's Singles' Day, the world's biggest online and offline shopping day.<\/p>\n

The Complainant is active in over 190 countries. For its business, the Complainant registered in year 1999 the domain name <alibaba.com>. This domain name is resolved to the website and platform of the Complainant. In addition to the main domain name <Alibaba.com>, the Complainant owns an exhaustive domain name portfolio, either consisting of or containing the term “ALIBABA”, with hundreds of domain name registrations associated with the main gTLDs, new gTLDs and ccTLDs.<\/p>\n

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The Complainant has been extensively using the “ALIBABA” denomination on all the existing internet environments including but not limited to the company’s official website https:\/\/www.alibaba.com\/ and its official accounts on the major social networks such as Facebook, TikTok, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube.<\/p>\n

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The disputed domain name was registered by the Respondent on October 1, 2024, without authorization of the Complainant, and redirects internet users to a fraudulent website which displays the trademark “ALIBABA”, the device mark and the 阿里 trademarks – this latter is the transliteration of the ALI word mark in Chinese characters.<\/p>\n

The Complainant’s trademarks are advertised in an unduly prominent manner as the website logo, as well as in the company profile and in the description The clear intent of the Respondent is to impersonate the Complainant, by pretending to be a partner of the Complainant, and to defraud unaware internet users, by requesting payment in exchange of allegedly inexistent services advertised by impersonating the Complainant.<\/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, 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": [ "Udo Pfleghar B.A. (Melb.)" ], "date_of_panel_decision": "2025-06-16 00:00:00", "informal_english_translation": "

The Complainant and its group companies are the proprietors of a substantial number of earlier trademark registrations, including, but not limited to the following:<\/p>\n

- USPTO Trademark no. 2579498 “ALIBABA” – Nice Cl. 35, 38, registered on June 11, 2002;<\/p>\n

- EUIPO Trademark no. 004534319 “ALIBABA” – Nice Cl. 9, 35, 38, 42, registered on August 02, 2006;<\/p>\n

- WIPO Trademark no. 1800560 “ALIBABA” extended in <\/span>Afghanistan<\/span> <\/span>– Nice Cl. 9, 35, 38, 41, 42, registered on March 01, 2024;<\/p>\n

- Chinese Trademark no. 67863513 “ALIBABA” – Nice Cl. 35, registered on April 07, 2024;<\/p>\n

- Chinese Trademark no. 12127699 – “ALIBABA” – Nice Cl. 35, registered on July 27, 2014;<\/p>\n

- Chinese Trademark no. 3068447 – “ALIBABA” – Nice Cl. 35, registered on October 27, 2010.<\/p>\n

In addition to numerous other domain names, the Complainant is the registrant of the domain name <alibaba.com> which has been registered since 1999.<\/p>", "decision_domains": { "alibabany.net": "TRANSFERRED" }, "panelist": null, "panellists_text": null }