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Docking station maker Plugable attempts reverse domain name hijacking
Leancode learned that a brand's strength is not measured by the volume of its founder's Reddit posts.
The UDRP is for clear-cut cybersquatting, not for clearing the field for a spelling mistake.
The founder took to Reddit to nuke the defender in public, feeding the panel the exact evidence of entitlement needed to find reverse hijacking.
The panel noted the case would have failed regardless, which makes the blunder purely theatrical.
A docking station maker with no claim to the domain and a misspelled name is a textbook cautionary tale.
The only uncontested wire at work here: a company's worst enemy is often its own belief.
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