The domain names are registered with Council of Registrars. Respondent did not file a response by the due date. Complainant elected a single-member Panel. Because there is no response, the following facts are taken from the complaint and are accepted as true. Talk City Inc. v. Michael Robertson , Case No.
Complainant is a provider of Internet search, information, e-commerce, and portal services.
It has one of the World Wide Web s largest search indexes and responds to more than 40 million search queries each day. The domain names at issue were registered on May 18, 1997. Complainant claims that Respondent lacks any rights in the domain names. Complainant alleges that Respondent has no trademark or service mark rights in the domain names, that Respondent does not use either of the domain names as a business name, and that Respondent is not a licensee of Complainant s mark. Complainant alleges that this conduct constitutes a bad faith attempt to disrupt Complainant s business, to profit by deceiving users as to the source, sponsorship, or affiliation of Respondent s site, and to misappropriate Complainant s goodwill.