Snapchat domain squatter loses comedy £1m URL sellback attempt
Found on The Register on Tuesday, 28 April 2020
Having registered snapchats.co.uk, East Londoner Muhibur Rahman built a photo business website on it. He even managed to get the site listed on Trustpilot.
Unlike its core product, Snapchat did not go away within a few seconds. Instead its lawyers went to Nominet's quasi-legal Dispute Resolution Service (DRS) in January, cited all of the company's global trademarks on the word "snapchat" and asked the DRS to take the domain name off Rahman. Everyone who buys a dot-UK domain name signs up to Nominet's Ts&Cs allowing the DRS to do this very thing if it decides that your new domain name infringes someone else's trademarks.
It should have been pretty obvious that his would not go well.