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Originally Posted by Slappin Fish
They come top because LH is their airline IATA code. I am not sure the average surfer would know. With the number of airlines, all with two letter IATA codes, it is going to be a lot of lost domains.
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I understand. While I'm not in agreement with the decision I can understand how it went down. ICANN favours infrastructure.
1) Complainant has a long history of the acronym "LH" being associated with their business.
2) Complainant did try to purchase the domain from Respondent. Respondent wouldn't sell only wanted to lease.
3) Respondent wasn't using the domain for anything besides collecting type-in traffic.
4) Surfers typing in "LH.com" were far more likely looking for Complainant than Respondent.
So if Respondent was the Lake Harbor Corp. they wouldn't lose the domain.
If LH.com was a legimite website and not a parked/redirection domain Respondent wouldn't have lost.
If Respondent wasn't using the domain they could of sold it and still made a profit. No need to hold a domain for 20 years with the hope of collecting/extorting a bunch of money that the domain would never generate on its own.