Ownership of "debian.community" domain

Laura Arjona Reina <[email protected]> Sun, 7 Aug 2022 16:52:26 +0200
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    <span style=3D"font-family:monospace"><span
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      The Debian Project
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ef=3D"https://www.debian.org/">https://www.debian.org/</a>
      <br>
      Ownership of "debian.community" domain
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ef=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>
      <br>
      August 7th, 2022
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=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0<a class=3D"moz-txt-link-freetext" href=3D"https://www.deb=
ian.org/News/2022/20220807">https://www.debian.org/News/2022/20220807</a>=

      <br>
------------------------------------------------------------------------
      <br>
      <br>
      The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), under its
      Uniform
      <br>
      Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP), decided that
      ownership of
      <br>
      the "debian.community" [1] domain should be transferred to the
      Debian
      <br>
      Project=C2=A0[2].
      <br>
      <br>
      =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A01: <a class=3D"moz-txt-link-freetext" href=3D"htt=
ps://debian.community">https://debian.community</a>
      <br>
      =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A02:
      <a class=3D"moz-txt-link-freetext" href=3D"https://www.wipo.int/amc=
/en/domains/search/case.jsp?case=3DD2022-1524">https://www.wipo.int/amc/e=
n/domains/search/case.jsp?case=3DD2022-1524</a>
      <br>
      <br>
      The appointed panel found that "the disputed domain name is
      identical to
      <br>
      a trademark in which the Complainant has rights."
      <br>
      <br>
      In its decision the panel noted: <br>
      <br>
      "[...] the disputed domain name is
      <br>
      identical to the DEBIAN mark, which carries a high risk of implied
      <br>
      affiliation with the Complainant. [...] Given that the Complainant
      <br>
      prominently describes Debian on its homepage as a 'community' and
      not
      <br>
      just an operating system, [the.community] suffix actually
      reinforces
      <br>
      that the disputed domain name will resolve to a site operated or
      <br>
      endorsed by [Debian]. The disputed domain name contains no
      critical or
      <br>
      other terms to dispel or qualify that false impression." <br>
    </span>
    <p><span style=3D"font-family:monospace">The panel went on to observe=
:
        <br>
      </span></p>
    <p><span style=3D"font-family:monospace">"The evidence submitted by
        the Complainant shows that some posts present the <br>
        DEBIAN mark together with information about a notorious sex
        cult, notorious sex <br>
        offenders, and enslavement of women, and one post displays
        photographs of <br>
        physical branding allegedly on victims=E2=80=99 genital skin. The=
 segues
        from <br>
        information about the Complainant to this type of information
        are contrived and <br>
        the scale of this information is not merely incidental on the
        website. In the <br>
        Panel=E2=80=99s view, these posts are deliberately intended to cr=
eate a
        false <br>
        association between the DEBIAN trademark and offensive phenomena
        and thereby <br>
        tarnish the mark."<br>
      </span></p>
    <p><span style=3D"font-family:monospace"></span></p>
    <p><span style=3D"font-family:monospace">
        and further concluded that: <br>
      </span></p>
    <p><span style=3D"font-family:monospace">"nothing in the Debian Socia=
l
        Contract or elsewhere indicates that the <br>
        Complainant has ever consented to the type of false associations
        with its mark <br>
        published by the respondent on its website. The Respondent
        points out that the <br>
        DEBIAN mark is registered only in respect of software. However,
        while the <br>
        relevant posts attack members of the Complainant who make
        available DEBIAN <br>
        software, rather than the software itself, these posts use the
        mark in <br>
        combination with the disputed domain name in a way that
        intentionally seeks to <br>
        create false associations with the mark itself. "<br>
      </span><span style=3D"font-family:monospace"></span></p>
    <span style=3D"font-family:monospace">Debian is committed to the
      proper use of its trademarks subject to its
      <br>
      trademark policy=C2=A0[3] and will continue to take enforcement act=
ion
      when
      <br>
      that policy is violated.<br>
      <br>
      =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A03: <a class=3D"moz-txt-link-freetext" href=3D"htt=
ps://www.debian.org/trademark">https://www.debian.org/trademark</a>
      <br>
      <br>
      The content of "debian.community" has now been replaced by a
      page=C2=A0[4]
      <br>
      explaining the situation and answering further questions.
      <br>
      <br>
      =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A04: <a class=3D"moz-txt-link-freetext" href=3D"htt=
ps://www.debian.org/legal/debian-community-site">https://www.debian.org/l=
egal/debian-community-site</a>
      <br>
      <br>
      WIPO's full decision text is available online:
      <br>
    </span>
    <p><span style=3D"font-family:monospace"><a class=3D"moz-txt-link-fre=
etext" href=3D"https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/search/case.jsp?case_i=
d=3D58273">https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/search/case.jsp?case_id=3D=
58273</a>=C2=A0[5]
        <br>
      </span></p>
    <span style=3D"font-family:monospace">=C2=A0=C2=A0 5:
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    </span><span style=3D"font-family:monospace"></span><br>
    <pre class=3D"moz-quote-pre" wrap=3D"">About Debian
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volunteer their time and effort in order to produce the completely free
operating system Debian.

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