The Complainant is a leading Chinese multinational conglomerate founded on June 28, 1999, in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. The Alibaba Group operates globally across a wide range of sectors including e-commerce, retail, Internet, and technology. It offers consumer-to-consumer (C2C), business-to-consumer (B2C), and business-to-business (B2B) sales services through both Chinese and international marketplaces. In addition, the Group provides services in digital media and entertainment, logistics, and cloud computing. In 2020, the company was ranked as the fifth-largest artificial intelligence enterprise globally.<\/p>\n
As part of its AI strategy, the Complainant developed Z-Image, an open-source image generation framework designed to deliver high-quality, photorealistic visuals with efficient inference performance. Conceived within Alibaba’s Tongyi-MAI research environment, Z-Image prioritizes lightweight architecture, multilingual text rendering, and robust prompt adherence. The evolution of the Z-Image ecosystem includes several specialized variants, including Z-Image-Turbo, a distilled version of the original 6-billion-parameter model optimized for sub-second image generation while maintaining strong photorealism and bilingual text rendering, as well as Z-Image-Omni-Base and Z-Image-Edit.<\/p>\n
The disputed domain name was registered by the Respondent on November 27, 2025 – one day after the Complainant’s public launch of the Z-Image project on GitHub. The domain name currently resolves to the website https:\/\/z-image.ai\/, which prominently features and promotes the Complainant’s Z-IMAGE-branded AI image-generation models and offers tiered pricing plans for access to services based on the Complainant’s technology, without any authorization from the Complainant.<\/p>\n
<\/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.<\/p>\n
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": [ "Dominik Eickemeier" ], "date_of_panel_decision": "2026-04-20 00:00:00", "informal_english_translation": "
The Complainant is the owner of several trademark applications for “Z-IMAGE” filed in multiple jurisdictions, including:<\/p>\n
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European Union, serial No. 019293045 – Z-IMAGE – NCL. 9, 42, application filed on December 17, 2025;<\/p>\n
United Kingdom, serial <\/span> No. UK00004311892 – Z-IMAGE – NCL. 9, 42, application filed on December 17, 2025;<\/p>\n United States of America, serial No. 99556586 – Z-IMAGE – NCL. 9, 42, application filed on December 18, 2025;<\/p>\n Singapore, serial No. 40202532613Y – Z-IMAGE – NCL. 9, 42, application filed on December 18, 2025 <\/span>.<\/p>\n <\/p>",
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