Words Want to Be Free: Have a Coal Distillate and a Smile

Case: D2001-0327

Domain(s): cokeusa.com

Complainant: The Coca-Cola Company

Respondent: Tantamount Property Trust

The Defense:

The domain name is applicable with equal force to the narcotic drug cocaine, in the sense that it may be used as a website delivering cocaine related information for addicts, promote addiction control, or advise cocaine addicts of support groups or anti-addiction health centers. The disputed domain name "CokeUSA.com" may also find usage by any one or more dozens if not hundreds of makers and purveyors of the coal distillate coke.