What if somebody tries to take your domains?

Provided that you have a legitimate interest in the domain and you are not cybersquatting (leveraging other people's Intellectual Property), you should be able to prevail in a UDRP or URS challenge.

Here are some things that will help you win:

• A matching registered trademark (domain: example.com with a trademark, "example")
• If you registered the domain prior to the Complainant's trademark or commencement of business activities
• Unambiguous legitimate use, such as your own active business, blog, or hobby page

It is becoming a more frequent occurrence that various entities are attempting to use the existing domain dispute proceedings to strip domains away from their registrants; however, in many cases, those current registrants are not cybersquatting. The term for this is Reverse Hijacking.

Fortunately, dispute panels are recognizing this, and when they see it and they often penalize the aggressor for it. We've covered the three "must-have" conditions that need to exist for a dispute resolution process to strip a domain and order it transferred. In lieu of any of those three, and especially in the absence of all of them, you would have a case for a finding of reverse hijacking.