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Recently, perhaps one of the funniest domain disputes in history has been started. Canadian company Qwalify Inc., working in the field of employment, whose website is located at qwalify.com, has applied to WIPO with the requirement to transfer the rights to the domain qualify.com.





As evidence of his rights, the plaintiff stated that the qualify.com domain was registered with malicious intent: Qwalify was registered in 2010, and the latest changes in Whois data of qualify domain are dated 2012. However, if you delve into history, you can easily find that the disputed domain was registered back in 1999 with the same person who owns it now.

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But the funny thing is that Qwalify believes that the domain owner intentionally uses his trademark for commercial purposes. According to him, it interferes with the company's business: thousands of users mistakenly type qualify.com instead of qwalify.com, and also constantly find the “wrong” domain in search engines.



This can be called typosquatting the opposite: the company registers the brand and domain with an error, and then tries to “return” to itself the correct spelling through the UDRP procedure.



Of course, she has no chance to win such a dispute. But this case is well illustrated by the fact that some companies do not want to spend money on a quality domain, and when it turns out its advantages, they tend to take it away using dirty methods.