Voices.com initiated UDRP but failed to recover the expired domain name Voices.ai

Voices.com, a well-known voice platform, recently tried to reclaim its domain name Voices.ai through UDRP arbitration, but was rejected.

The domain name originally belonged to Voices.com, but expired earlier this year due to management negligence. Subsequently, the domain name was registered by someone else and sold on the Namecheap platform for $25,000. The transaction has been included in the NameBio database.

In response to Voices.com, the new owner stated that he had just sold the domain name fin.ai for $1 million this year, so the price of voices.ai was also $1 million.

Voices.com subsequently filed a UDRP lawsuit with the National Arbitration Forum (FORUM), claiming that it had registered trademark rights for "Voices" and accusing the current registrant of malicious registration. However, the arbitration panel believed that although the brand did have certain rights, the domain name was legally obtained in a registrable state and did not constitute online registration. The registrant did not use the domain name to engage in misleading content, nor did it misuse the brand image of Voices.com.

According to the UDRP rules, the complainant must meet three conditions at the same time: the domain name is confusingly similar to the trademark, the registrant does not have legitimate rights and interests, and has malicious registration and use intentions. In this case, the arbitration panel held that Voices.com failed to fully prove the latter two points and ultimately ruled that the current registrant continued to retain the domain name.

This incident once again highlights the serious consequences that negligence in brand domain name asset management may bring. Voices.ai is a typical brand + popular suffix combination with great market value. Especially in the context of the continued heating up of the AI industry, the loss of this domain name is undoubtedly a major mistake for Voices.com.

Information source: domainnamewire