{
    "case_number": "CAC-UDRP-108252",
    "time_of_filling": "2025-12-22 10:12:04",
    "domain_names": [
        "blissscape.com"
    ],
    "case_administrator": "  Iveta Špiclová   (Czech Arbitration Court) (Case admin)",
    "complainant": [
        "Jagex Limited"
    ],
    "complainant_representative": "Stobbs IP (Stobbs IP)",
    "respondent": [
        "Tim Parsons"
    ],
    "respondent_representative": null,
    "factual_background": "<p class=\"p1\">The Complainant was incorporated on 28 April 2000 as Jagex Limited, and since then has carried on the business of designing, developing, publishing, and operating online video games and other electronic-based entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>The Complainant is well-known internationally for its Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (&ldquo;MMORPG&rdquo;) RuneScape, and Old School RuneScape. Together, the Games average a total of more than 3 million active users per month since October 2022 Old School RuneScape has been recognised by the Guinness World Records for being the largest free-to-play MMORPG with over 300 million accounts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Complainant has also received public and critical praise for its Games. Old School RuneScape was awarded 2019 EE Mobile Game of the Year at the British Academy Games Awards, while maintaining a Metacritic score of 87, a 4.8 rating (out of 5) on the iOS App Store, and 14,252 &ldquo;Very Positive&rdquo; user ratings on Steam.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Complainant&rsquo;s Games have also provided the stimulus for a substantial quantity of online user-generated content relating to the games, including blogs, online articles, forums, videos, message boards, as well dedicated wikis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In addition to its extensive use of the RUNESCAPE and SCAPE trade marks in relation to video games, large player-base, significant level of endorsement on social media, and critical acclaim, the Complainant also uses a wide range of other SCAPE-summative signs.<\/p>",
    "other_legal_proceedings": "<p>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": "<p>The Complainant contends that the requirements of the Policy have been met and that the disputed domain name should be transferred to it. The Complainant makes a number of legal arguments and also supplies a set of annexes providing evidence of its activities and of the Respondent's use of a mere webpage offering to sell the disputed domain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"s2\"><span>No administratively compliant Response has been filed by the Respondent.<\/span><\/p>",
    "rights": "<p>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": "<p>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": "<p>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 class=\"s2\"><span>It is indicated that the <\/span><span>CAC<\/span><span> <\/span><span>was able to send the written notice to the Respondent.<\/span><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s2\"><span>The notice of the Commencement of the administrative proceeding was sent also by e-mail and duly received.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s2\"><span>The Respondent never accessed the online platform.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s2\"><span>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.<\/span><\/p>",
    "decision": "Accepted",
    "panelists": [
        "David-Irving Tayer"
    ],
    "date_of_panel_decision": "2026-01-24 00:00:00",
    "informal_english_translation": "<p>The Complainant is the owner of numerous trademarks filed or registered worldwide, including but not limited to the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SCAPE (figurative) &ndash; United Kingdom IPO UK00004247316, covering Nice Classification 41, registered since 21 November 2025;<br \/><br \/><\/li>\n<li>RUNESCAPE (word) - United Kingdom IPO UK00002302308, covering Nice Classifications 16, 25, 41, registered since 27 December 2002; and<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>DARKSCAPE (word) &ndash; European Union IPO 018613417, covering Nice Classifications 9, 16, 25, 28, 41, registered since 18 May 2022.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"s2\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span>The Complainant owns the domain name &lt;runescape.com&gt;, which has resolved to an active website relating to online video games since at least as early as 17 August 2000. In addition to &lt;runescape.com&gt;, the Complainant has acquired various further domain names which incorporate the RUNESCAPE trade marks and SCAPE sign, and which resolve to active websites, including in particular &lt;runescape.net&gt;; &lt;06scape.com&gt;; and &lt;2007scape.com&gt;.<\/p>\n<p>The Complainant is also active on social media (YouTube, Facebook, Instagram) since at least 2005 and has generated a significant level of endorsement.<\/p>\n<p>The Complainant also uses a wide range of other SCAPE-summative signs within and in association with RuneScape, including but not limited to the ScapeRune, ScapeRune Teleport, or again music track made available on SoundCloud: Scape Sorrow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"s2\"><span>The Respondent registered the disputed domain name on 20 September 2024. Currently, the disputed domain name resolves at the time of the Complaint to a webpage offering to acquire the disputed domain.<\/span><\/p>",
    "decision_domains": {
        "blissscape.com": "TRANSFERRED"
    },
    "panelist": null,
    "panellists_text": null
}