{
    "case_number": "CAC-ADREU-006139",
    "time_of_filling": null,
    "domain_names": [
        "www.euroclima.eu"
    ],
    "case_administrator": "Tereza Bartošková (Case admin)",
    "complainant": [
        "euroclima SPA (euroclima SPA)"
    ],
    "complainant_representative": null,
    "respondent": [
        "World Online Endeavours Ltd."
    ],
    "respondent_representative": null,
    "factual_background": "The Complainant is \"euroclima SPA\", an Italian company providing technology in the air-handling sector.\r\n\r\nThe Respondent is \"World Online Endeavours\", a supposed English company which does not exploit any website offering goods or services.\r\n\r\nOn 7 april 2006, the first day of the Land Rush period, the <euroclima.eu> domain name was registered by the Respondent.\r\n \r\nThe Complainant requested the transfer of the domain name <euroclima.eu>. \r\n\r\nThe Respondent did not submit a response by the required deadline or at all.",
    "other_legal_proceedings": "The Panel is not aware of other legal proceedings which are pending or decided and which relate to the disputed domain name.",
    "discussion_and_findings": "1. In consideration of the Factual Background, the Parties' Contentions stated above and its own web searches, the Panel comes to the following conclusions: \r\n\r\nArticle 21 of the Regulation (EC) No. 874\/2004 of 28 April 2004 (hereafter “the Regulation”) states that \"a registered domain name shall be subject to revocation [...] where the name is identical or confusingly similar to a name in respect of which a right is recognised or established by national and\/or Community law, such as the rights mentioned in Article 10(1) and where it: \r\n\r\n(a) has been registered by its holder without rights or legitimate interest in the name; or \r\n\r\n(b) has been registered or is being used in bad faith\". \r\n\r\n2. The rights mentioned in Article 10 (1) of the Regulation shall be understood to include national and community trademarks and, as far as they are protected under national law in the Member-State where they are held: trade names, business identifiers or company names. \r\n\r\n3. As a consequence, this Panel is of the view that: \r\n\r\n(i) The documentary evidence provided by the Complainant shows this latter owns several prior rights, such as the semi-figurative trademarks \"EUROCLIMA\" protected in several european countries or its company name.  \r\n\r\n(ii) The domain name <euroclima> is identical to the company name and confusingly similar to the trademarks of the Complainant. \r\n\r\n4. The remaining issue is then to decide whether the domain name <euroclima> has been registered by the Respondent without rights or legitimate interest or whether it has been registered or used in bad faith by the Respondent. \r\n\r\n5. In this respect, the first point on which the Panel would like to draw the attention is that the Respondent did not submit any Response and did not comply with its obligation and time periods under the ADR Rules. \r\n\r\n6. The second point is that the Respondent, World Online Endeavours, does not exploit any web site in connection of goods or services linked with the \"euroclima\" name, neither using the <euroclima.eu> domain name. \r\n\r\n7. As the Respondent did not submit any Response, the Panel has done some searches on web databases. However, the Panel did not find any element (as described in Article 21(2) of the Regulation) which may have been called upon by the Respondent. \r\n\r\n8. On the other hand, the Panel found other Decisions of the Arbitration Center for <.eu> domain names where the Respondent already did not reply at all (see for example Case n° 04336, NIMM2-LACHGUMMI ; Case n° 04588, RIEKE) after having registered the trademark of another Complainant as a <.eu> domain name, on the first day of the Land Rush period. \r\n\r\n9. Therefore it is the Panel's opinion that the behaviour of the Respondent, who is obvioulsy used to registering <.eu> domain names based on Prior rights belonging to third parties, constitutes bad faith. \r\n\r\n10. Moreover, considering all the above elements in the present Case and Paragraph B10 of the ADR Rules, the Panel considers the failure of the Respondent to comply with its obligation and time periods under the ADR Rules as grounds to accept the claims of the Complainant. \r\n\r\n11. As the Complainant, an Italian registered company, satisfies the general eligibility criteria set out in Article 4(2)(b) of Regulation (EC) n° 733\/2002, the domain name is transferred to the Complainant.",
    "decision": "For all the foregoing reasons, in accordance with Paragraphs B12 (b) and (c) of the Rules, the Panel orders that the domain name EUROCLIMA be transferred to the Complainant.",
    "panelists": [
        null
    ],
    "date_of_panel_decision": "2012-01-19 00:00:00",
    "informal_english_translation": "The Complainant seeks the transfer of the domain name <euroclima.eu>.\r\n\r\nThe Panel rules that : \r\n\r\n(i) The documentary evidence provided by the Complainant shows that he owns trademarks and company name in respect of which a right is recognised by Italian national law, as required by Article 10(1) of the Regulation; \r\n\r\n(ii) The domain name <euroclima> is identical to the company name of the Complainant and confusingly similar to the trademarks of the Complainant, as required by Article 21 of the Regulation (EC) No. 874\/2004 of 28 April 2004; \r\n\r\n(iii) The behaviour of the Respondent, who is obvioulsy used to registering <.eu> domain names based on Prior rights belonging to third parties, constitutes bad faith; \r\n\r\n(iv) The failure of the Respondent to comply with its obligation and time periods under the ADR Rules shall be considered, in the present Case, as grounds to accept the claims of the Complainant. \r\n\r\nThe domain name is transferred.",
    "decision_domains": [],
    "panelist": null,
    "panellists_text": null
}