Lufthansa & WeightWatchers Win URS

The URS (Uniform Rapid Suspension System) is a new rights protection mechanism that was introduced as part of ICANN’s New TLD rollout. Unlike the UDRP (Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy), if a complainant prevails in a URS they do not get the domain. All a URS can do is result in the domain being suspended for the rest of its registration period.

Two URS decisions that were published earlier today are good examples of exact match trademark domains:

• lufthansa.koeln
• weightwatchers.wales

The only thing that is possibly interesting about the two decisions is in relation to the .wales one. If you look at both who the complaint was lodged (HEG) and the whois details it’s a little “odd”:

whois weightwatchers.wales -h whois.nic.wales
Domain Name: WEIGHTWATCHERS.WALES
Domain ID: D_0001838B_F15487AB66BB45D9B06B80CC0FF999C2_0000014C6FAAFBFA-WALES
Updated Date: 2015-03-31T15:15:07Z
Creation Date: 2015-03-31T11:50:18Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2016-03-31T11:50:18Z
Sponsoring Registrar: Mesh Digital Limited
Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 1390
WHOIS Server:
Referral URL: http://www.domainbox.com
Domain Status: SERVER DELETE PROHIBITED http://www.icann.org/epp#serverDeleteProhibited
Domain Status: SERVER TRANSFER PROHIBITED http://www.icann.org/epp#serverTransferProhibited
Domain Status: SERVER UPDATE PROHIBITED http://www.icann.org/epp#serverUpdateProhibited
Registrant ID: hegLaunch
Registrant Name: HEG
Registrant Organization: HEG
Registrant Street: The Old Forge
Registrant Street: Shackstead Lane
Registrant City: Godalming
Registrant State/Province: Surrey
Registrant Postal Code: GU7 1RJ
Registrant Country: GB
Registrant Phone: +44.1483304030
Registrant Email: server.admin@meshdigital.com
Admin ID: hegLaunch
Admin Name: HEG
Admin Organization: HEG
Admin Street: The Old Forge
Admin Street: Shackstead Lane
Admin City: Godalming
Admin State/Province: Surrey
Admin Postal Code: GU7 1RJ
Admin Country: GB
Admin Phone: +44.1483304030
Admin Email: server.admin@meshdigital.com
Billing ID: hegLaunch
Billing Name: HEG
Billing Organization: HEG
Billing Street: The Old Forge
Billing Street: Shackstead Lane
Billing City: Godalming
Billing State/Province: Surrey
Billing Postal Code: GU7 1RJ
Billing Country: GB
Billing Phone: +44.1483304030
Billing Email: server.admin@meshdigital.com
Tech ID: hegLaunch
Tech Name: HEG
Tech Organization: HEG
Tech Street: The Old Forge
Tech Street: Shackstead Lane
Tech City: Godalming
Tech State/Province: Surrey
Tech Postal Code: GU7 1RJ
Tech Country: GB
Tech Phone: +44.1483304030
Tech Email: server.admin@meshdigital.com
Name Server: ursns1.adrforum.com.
Name Server: ursns2.adrforum.com.
DNSSEC: unsigned
>>> Last update of WHOIS database: 2015-05-09T07:39:54Z <<<

It looks like the whois data is some kind of temporary data used by the registrar, so they ended up as the respondent instead of their client (?)