MILTON KEYNES, England, May 14 /PRNewswire/ --     Safenames, an online brand protection services company and global domain
name registrar, successfully recovered multiple domain names for five revered
members of the English Premier League. In the fiercely contested English
Premier League, it is rare if not unimaginable that the clubs would unite,
but in order to address the shared problem of online trademark infringement
cases that illegally profit from famous and beloved brands; the decision to
form an alliance was simple.

By working with representatives from the English Premier League head
office along with officials from Liverpool, Manchester United, Tottenham
Hotspur, Fulham, and West Ham football clubs, Safenames was able to establish
a common link between the individual online trademark infringement cases. As
a result, Safenames filed the unprecedented single complaint, on behalf of
the five Premier League clubs, with the World Intellectual Property
Organization (WIPO) Arbitration and Mediation Center using the Uniform
Resolution Policy (UDRP). The WIPO Panel ruled in favour of the Premier
League Clubs after finding that the facts presented by Safenames justified
that the use of the domain names were identically or confusingly similar to
that of the trademark holders and the respondent had no right or legitimate
interests to use the names. The registration rights for official-liverpool-
tickets.com, official-manchester-tickets.com, official-tottenham-tickets.com,
official-fulham-tickets.com and official-westham-tickets.com have been
awarded to their respective clubs.

"We are delighted at the arbitration panel's decision to award the
domains to their rightful trademark holders. Unauthorised use of trademarks
in the form of domain names is quite a common problem and one that continues
to grow as Internet usage grows. There is no industry immune from this
damaging issue and we were very happy to assist some of the world's leading
brands in professional sport with fighting this battle." said Head Counsel
for Safenames, Prudence Malinki, who filed the unprecedented UDRP on behalf
of the Premier League clubs.

Safenames has been on the forefront of global trademark infringement
detection and domain name recovery services for years. The recently launched
Safenames' Mark Protect service enables companies to identify and prioritise
recovery of domains infringement on their brands was instrumental in
gathering the facts used to build this case. Mark Protect combined with
Safenames' legal expertise on domain dispute filings allowed the case to be
resolved in less than two months with a successful result.

Visit
http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisions/html/2009/d2009-0331.html to
review the complete WIPO decision.

Safenames Ltd

Safenames, http://www.safenames.net, are a leading global domain name
registration company that specialises in corporate domain portfolio
management and online trademark infringement protection services. The company
is headquartered in Milton Keynes, England with regional offices in Vienna,
Virginia, and Sydney, Australia. Safenames is a privately held company
founded in 1997 and received ICANN accreditation in 2002.

Reporter relations contact:
    Steve Miholovich, Head of Marketing
    +1-703-574-5313 or steve.miholovich@safenames.net