DataSnap LLC, a data analytics startup founded in 2025, attempted to seize the domain name thedatasnap.com from the domain trading platform Sedo through the UDRP process. The domain is currently held by GoDaddy.
During the review, the panel found that Datasnap.com was registered in 2002, well before the complainant’s founding. DataSnap LLC failed to provide any valid evidence of earlier common law rights, submitting only AI-written articles and self-published press releases from 2025, without any actual sales, advertising, or other commercial use data.
The panel pointed out that the 23-year time difference was sufficient to prove that the domain could not have been maliciously registered to a company that did not yet exist at the time, and the UDRP’s joint test rules for “registration and use” directly refuted the complainant’s claim of “malicious use only.”
Furthermore, in 2025, GoDaddy facilitated a transaction in which Sedo agreed to sell the domain for $3,500, but later claimed to have lost control, resulting in a refund of the hosting fees, although WHOIS information still showed Sedo as the registrant. The panel ruled that such contractual and hosting disputes should be handled by the courts and were not within the jurisdiction of the UDRP.
Ultimately, the UDRP complaint was dismissed, Datasnap.com remains under Sedo’s management, and related transaction disputes must be resolved through other channels.
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