The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge has filed a UDRP on the domain name Cambridge.com.
The domain is owned by Kirkland Holdings LLC of Brookline MA since March 2012.
The prior owner of the domain name is “MHL” also of Brookline who got the domain around September 2009.
The domain has an original creation date of September 21, 1992 making it just about 25 years old.
As you can see on the screenshot the site Cambridge.com asks users to “click to Choose Your Cambridge.
The choice on the right is a picture of the University who official website can be found at cam.ac.uk
If you click on the UK picture you go to a site about stuff to do and see in Cambridge, UK with a bunch of ads, while a click on the left takes you to a site about Cambridge which is outside of Boston and the home of some of the most prestigious colleges in the US, including Harvard & MIT.
There are ads for online education and other education related topics but also to book hotels and has posts about events and other activities.
The owner of the domain Cambridge.com indicates on its site that it has a registered Service-mark and I did find two for the company, one for “CAMBRIDGE.COM EVERYTHING CAMBRIDGE, UK” and another for “CAMBRIDGE.COM EVERYTHING CAMBRIDGE, US”
Really don’t get this one at all, we will keep our eye on the UDRP.
