Yale University Tries to Grab yale.mobi
Yale University has filed a UDRP complaint with WIPO in an attempt to get control of the domain yale.mobi.
Currently, yale.mobi is owned by Interwebgroup, LLC, and the domain is parked with GoDaddy, with no content of its own.
One can imagine a variety of legitimate reasons someone might have for yale.mobi. An individual whose last name is Yale, perhaps? Or a site critical of Yale University, exercising free speech rights to criticize Yale. Or a commercial concern with Yale in its name: the Yale Locks company, or Yale Europe, which sells forklifts and other materials handling equipment, or Yale Windows and Doors, might all have a legitimate interest in the yale.mobi domain.
There are reports that the domain owner offered the domain to Yale U for $900. This could be result in an interpretation of the domain registration as being in “bad faith” — being as they stood to profit from selling the domain to Yale U.