The Complainant is a multinational chemical company with European and American roots going back to 1953-54 when its predecessor company scientists made their discoveries in the creation of polyethylene and polypropylene. It has become the third largest plastics, chemicals and refining company in the world; and<\/p>\n
the largest licensor of polyethylene and polypropylene technologies having over 6,200 patents and patent applications worldwide. The Complainant has over 20,300 employees around the globe and manufactures at 75 sites in 20 countries. The Complainant's products are sold in more than 100 countries. It has been listed on the New York Stock Exchange since 2010 and in 2024 had an EBITDA of USD $4.3 billion.<\/p>\n
The disputed domain name was registered August 11, 2013 and at the time of filing resolved to an inactive webpage.<\/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": "
<\/p>\n
The Panel issued a procedural order on October 13, 2025 as follows:<\/p>\n
\"The Panel seeks clarification from the Complainant that Annex 9b is in fact a printout of the page to which the disputed domain name redirected at the time of filing of the Complaint. If not, and this page was filed in error, please provide a copy of the relevant page by return. In addition, the Panel requests the Complainant to provide a copy of Annex 12 as referred to in the last paragraph under the section headed “Respondent’s Lack Of Rights And Legitimate Interests” which appears to the Panel to be a copy of the redirected parking page showing details of sponsored links.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/em>The Panel requests that the Complainant file this evidence by 20 October 2025 and affords the Respondent the opportunity to file submissions strictly relating to these items of evidence by 27 October 2025. The Panel hereby extends the decision due date to 4 November 2025.\"<\/em><\/p>\n The Complainant's representatives responded on October 13, 2025 as follows:<\/p>\n \"We thank the panel for this clarification opportunity.<\/em><\/p>\n Regarding one of the Annex, we confirm that it is correct: the domain name redirected, as indicated in the bullet points of “Registration and use in bad faith”, to a random webpage at the moment prima facie inactive.<\/em><\/p>\n “Regarding one of the annexes to the Complaint to which refer the last paragraph under the section headed “Respondent’s Lack Of Rights And Legitimate Interests” it is indeed the already provided another Annex related to MX records, set up on the disputed domain name.”<\/em><\/p>\n “Please note that this last paragraph has indeed been added for error and the correct paragraph should read as follows:”<\/em><\/p>\n “The disputed domain name is redirected to a random page and it is set up to send emails, therefore indicating that they have been registered to be involved in phishing activities\/storage Spoofing”.<\/em><\/p>\n We thank you for the opportunity of clarification\".<\/em><\/p>\n No communication was received from the Respondent. <\/p>\n 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.<\/em><\/p>",
"decision": "Accepted",
"panelists": [
"Mr Alistair Payne"
],
"date_of_panel_decision": "2025-10-31 00:00:00",
"informal_english_translation": " The Complainant owns various trade mark registrations for its LYONDELLBASEL mark including United States trade mark registration 3634012 registered on May 7, 2008 and European trade mark registration number 006943518 registered on May 16, 2008. It has owned the domain name <lyondellbasell.com> since 2007 from which it operates its main website.<\/p>",
"decision_domains": {
"lyondellbassell.com": "TRANSFERRED"
},
"panelist": null,
"panellists_text": null
}