Complaint Denied: Nintendo loses dispute over WiiU.com domain name

In February, Nintendo of America filed a cybersquatting complaint against the owner of WiiU.com with the World Intellectual Property Organization, in what seemed like a slam dunk case for the video game company. A decision in WIPO Case Number D2013-0322 was posted to WIPO’s website Saturday and Nintendo has lost.

[konnerbllb]

Owned.

[Blankolf]

That's exactly the problem, the domain is already owned.

Octodad is obvious.

[LOL_WUT]

You can't always win them all ;)

[chaos-lockheart]

But you can always catch them all

[Murad]

If you played the Pokemon games for the GBA, you'll realize that your statement is incorrect.

[Blackdeath_663]

i wonder when the WiiU domain was made if it was made before the wiiu was announced or revealed then nintendo don't have a case and maybe that's why they lost out

[nukeitall]

Nintendo still has a case because they own the trademark for Wii. I'm confused why Nintendo lost?

oh well, whatever.

[Elwenil]

Looking at the registration, it seems the domain record goes back to 2004. If that's the case, I can understand why Nintendo lost the claim. I imagine the owner is looking forward to making Nintendo pay out the nose for the rights to that domain.

[Blackdeath_663]

thanks for the info there is no way the person who registered that domain back in 2004 would have known that nintendo will actually make a console called the Wiiu nintendo should have just bought it rather than file a complaint now the owner will surely ask for a bucket load of money. the wiiU is a stupid name anyways. also why doesnt a company ask one of their employees to secure any domains they require under their name (not the companies) before hand that way people won't know what the company is up to and the domain is safe with one of their employees

[dark-hollow]

http://www.3ds.com Http://www.wiiu.com

Lol what the hell? The first one looks legit but I don't know what the second website is about.

[Jagsrock]

The wiiu site is just bizarre. I don't get the point of the site either.

[Angeljuice]

The point of the site is simply to exist. That way Nintendo have to pay big for the domain name. It strengthens the new owners claim to that domain.

[pixelsword]

That WiiU site is barely not squatting; that site is just a shell; I hope Nintendo learned a lesson and keep the name under wraps until they get the site.

I hope those guys get no money from this either lol

[Angeljuice]

@Nukeitall

A trademark is for a particular product. If you called a new car 'wiiu', it wouldn't be affected by the trademark. Nintendo let the domain name license expire and were too slow to act on re-establishing it. Well played to whoever took it, should be expecting a fat cheque soon (or a team of ninja-monkey assassins may visit you in your sleep).

[pixelsword]

Bananas will help you escape.

Every. Single. Time.

[bub16]

Awww poor mericans will have to use something other then .com

[GameCents]

Should have gotten Microsoft's lawyers, those guys never lose, I mean Xbox 360 sales should have been banned ages ago but they still out there much to Google's disdain hehehe.

[r21]

Going to playstation4.com leads to psxtreme.com. Weird but ok i guess, seeing it goes to a PS related site unlike the other ones.

[chasegarcia]

Reason they lost: Wiiu.com is not a game site and you know right away it is not related to Nintendo.

Research Nissan.com

[brewin]

Patent trolls are getting out of hand! Lets all go create the websites now for the products we think will be real in a matter of years. These douches have made so much money off this tactic its ridiculous. If you dont have a product or service readily available or in the pipelines then you should not be allowed to secure anything within that domain. What a joke.

[pixelsword]

BiggerPen!spills.com

I'ma billionaire!

[akaihana86plus]

This is just ridiculous