Telstra Corp. Ltd. V. Nuclear Marshmallows
World Intellectual Property Organization Arbitration and Mediation Center
Case No. D2000-0003 (2000)
Telstra Corporation Ltd. (plaintiff) was a well-known Australian company holding multiple "Telstra" trademarks and related domain names. Nuclear Marshmallows (defendant), an unregistered and unidentifiable entity, registered the domain name "telstra.org" using false contact information and took no active steps to use the domain. Telstra brought a complaint against Nuclear Marshmallows before the World Intellectual Property Organization under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy.
Whether a registrant's mere passive inaction with respect to a registered domain name can amount to bad-faith use of that domain name under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy.