Recently, renowned intellectual property lawyer John Berry Hill represented domain investor Adam Maysonet / Insane Entertainment LLC in a Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) dispute over the Nexim.com domain. The review panel rejected the complaint from Italian company Nexim Italia, and the domain ownership remains with the investor.
The core dispute stemmed from Nexim Italia’s claim that its NEXIM trademark has global recognition and accused the investor of preemptively registering the domain with the intention of reselling it. Nexim Italia was founded in 2018, while Nexim.com was registered by a third party as early as 1999. After entering the auction market in 2025, the investor purchased the domain for $4,911 on the NameJet platform and added it to their investment portfolio. The review panel found that Nexim Italia failed to provide any substantial evidence to support its “global reputation”—no sales data, no marketing records, no independent media coverage, and its only online presence was a website accessible only to Italian users and a small number of social media followers, which was seriously inconsistent with its claim of being a “leading global operator.”
Conversely, the evidence submitted by the investor showed that “Nexim” was widely used by numerous unrelated companies worldwide, indicating that the term had generic brand attributes and was not a trademark exclusive to this Italian SME. Furthermore, the review panel confirmed that the investor did not actively contact Nexim Italia to sell the domain name, the listing page did not mention the brand, and the GoDaddy email cited by the complainant was unrelated to the investor; there was no evidence that the investor had engaged in malicious registration of the domain name against the company.
Ultimately, the review panel determined that the investor’s purchase and resale of the short and easily branded .com domain name constituted a legitimate investment and did not constitute malicious registration. Therefore, all of Nexim Italia’s complaints were dismissed, and the investor’s ownership of Nexim.com was upheld.
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