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D2025-0774: RDNH finding over novagaming.com

On 11 April 2025, a WIPO panel declared that Mobility SAS brought its complaint over novagaming.com in bad faith, the finding known as reverse domain name hijacking (RDNH). The complaint was denied, so the registrant kept the name.

The domain name was registered on 21 April 2004, 20.8 years before the complaint was filed.

The record

WIPO caseD2025-0774
Domain namenovagaming.com
ComplainantMobility SAS
Decision date11 April 2025
Outcome (WIPO)Complaint denied
How the finding appearsdeclared in the operative decision
PanelistAlexiev, Assen
PanelSole panelist
Complainant representedYes
RespondentDid not respond
Domain registered21 April 2004
Complaint filed25 February 2025

The panel’s finding

For the foregoing reasons, the Complaint is denied. Moreover, the Panel finds that the Complaint has been brought in bad faith and constitutes an attempt at Reverse Domain Name Hijacking.

The panel’s decision, D2025-0774

Quoted exactly from the decision. Read the full decision on WIPO for the reasons.

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How the RDNH archive is built

WIPO publishes every panel decision and a full-text search over them. This archive starts from that search for the wording a panel uses when it declares reverse domain name hijacking, reads each decision in full (older ones are web pages, newer ones PDFs converted to text), and keeps those where the panel itself says the complaint was brought in bad faith. A finding is marked declared in the operative decision when the final order says so, or found in the panel’s reasoning when only the reasoning does.

The reading is automatic and has been checked by hand on samples, but it is not exhaustive and not perfect: some findings may be missing, and a few listed cases may be borderline. A case is listed only when the panel’s own closing words can be quoted cleanly; decisions with an irregular layout, or not written in English, are held back. Every page links to the decision on WIPO, which is the authority. Dates, parties and panellists come from WIPO’s case records. Respondents are not named.

This is an information resource, not legal advice. A finding of RDNH is a panel’s conclusion about one complaint, not a statement about the company beyond that case.