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CigaHotels.com UDRP: Century-old hotel name checks out

· Jan Gebser · 1 min read

 DomainGang.com: An Italian trademark owner filed a UDRP against CigaHotels.com, arguing that the domain targeted its CIGA HOTELS marks. The Respondent had a different explanation: CIGA was the acronym of Compagnia Italiana Grandi Alberghi, a historic Italian luxury hotel company founded in Venice in 1906. The WIPO Panel found evidence that CIGA and ...