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The National Arbitration Forum’s three-person panel has analyzed and upheld a complaint filed by Steve Jobs Archive, LLC, an organization founded by Steve Jobs’ widow Laurene Powell Jobs. The complaint was filed to regain the domain name stevejobs.com. According to Domain Name Wire, the name was registered back in 1999 by a South Korean registrant, who alleged had the right to the domain name because he changed his name to Steve Jobs Kim in 1999.</p>
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The panel established that this name occasionally appeared on the stevejobs.com site. However, it concluded that this was nothing more than a ruse by the registrant, because once on the site, viewers are presented with the option to contact stevejobs.com.manager@gmail.com for consulting services as well as with links relaying technology news. The panel argued that “Internet users who are directed to the disputed domain name’s resolved website are likely to believe that they have successfully accessed a website related to, or authorized by, Steve Jobs or his successors.” It concluded that such a use of the disputed domain name constituted bad faith use.</p>
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The panel has therefore ruled that the stevejobs.com domain name should be transferred from the respondent to the complainant, Steve Jobs Archive. It is unclear, though, why Steve Jobs and his successors failed to notice that such a domain name was in existence for 20 years.</p>
