{ "case_number": "CAC-UDRP-108709", "time_of_filling": "2026-07-08 09:50:22", "domain_names": [ "arkema-na.com" ], "case_administrator": "Olga Dvořáková (Case admin)", "complainant": [ "ARKEMA FRANCE" ], "complainant_representative": "Mr Franck CASO (IN CONCRETO)", "respondent": [ "Eric WONG (Eric WONG)" ], "respondent_representative": null, "factual_background": "

The Complainant is a French company engaged in the provision of materials science used in connection with paint, adhesives, coats, glue, fibers, resins, raw material, finished products and related goods and services and has been so engaged since at least 2006. It is the owner of the aforesaid constituent trademarks of the ARKEMA trademark which it has used for many years and prior to the registration by the Respondent of the domain name <arkema-na.com> (“the Disputed Domain Name”). It has come to the notice of the Complainant that the Respondent registered the Disputed Domain Name on June 5, 2026 and caused it to resolve to a website which is a copy of the Complainant’s official website at www.arkema.com<\/a>. The Complainant is concerned that the registration and use of the Disputed Domain Name in this manner is an infringement of its rights in the ARKEMA trademark and also that this use of the Disputed Domain Name shows that it may well be used in the future by the Respondent for fraudulent and unauthorized purposes such as passing off and impersonating the Complainant if it remains in the ownership of the Respondent. Accordingly, the Complainant has instituted this proceeding to have the Disputed Domain Name transferred to itself.<\/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": "

Complainant<\/p>\n

The Complainant made the following contentions.<\/p>\n

(i) The Disputed Domain Name is confusingly similar to a trademark or service mark in which the Complainant has rights.<\/p>\n

The Complainant owns the trademark for ARKEMA which it registered many years before the Respondent registered the Disputed Domain Name on June 5, 2026.<\/p>\n

The Disputed Domain Name incorporates the ARKEMA trademark in its entirety with the addition of a hyphen and the letters “na” and the Top Level Domain “.com.” The trademark is clearly recognizable in the Disputed Domain Name. The addition of elements such as a hyphen are ignored by panels when considering the issue of confusing similarity as they are not significant enough to influence the outcome of that issue. It is also well-established that the addition of letters such as “na” as in the present case cannot influence a decision on confusing similarity if the relevant trademark is clearly recognizable, which in the present case it is. Finally, the addition of a Top Level Domain such as “.com” in the present case cannot influence this decision as all domain names must have some such extension. In the present case it is very apparent that the Disputed Domain name invokes the Complainant’s trademark which is clearly recognizable. The Disputed Domain Name is thus similar and confusingly similar to the trademark, as internet users would undoubtedly conclude that it is a domain name of the Complainant or one that is authorized by it.<\/p>\n

(ii) The Respondent has no rights or legitimate interests in respect of the Disputed Domain Name.<\/p>\n

The Complainant is first required to make out a prima facie<\/em> case that the Respondent has no rights or legitimate interests in the Disputed Domain Name and, if such a prima facie<\/em> case is made out, the onus of proof is then transferred to the Respondent to rebut any such prima facie<\/em> case that has been established.<\/p>\n

The Complainant submits that, for the following reasons, it can make out its prima facie case:<\/p>\n