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Owner of 75,000 Web Domains Seeks Relief from Cybersquatting Decision.

BRYSON CITY, April 21, 2009 -- The owner of 75,000 web domains seeks relief from a National Arbitration Forum ordering the transfer of www.smoothmove.com to a herbal products company.

After losing an arbitration decision under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy, Florida based Worldwide Media, Inc. has filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina in the hope of vacating the arbitration decision ordering them to transfer the domain smoothmove.com to Traditional Medicinals, Inc.

Traditional Medicinals, Inc. sells herbal dietary supplements, natural health products, over the counter medicines, and herbal medicinal products.

Worldwide Media, Inc. admits in their complaint to owning 75,000 web domains and generating income from pay-per-click advertising and the sale of their registered domains.

Despite these admissions, Worldwide Media, Inc. argues they do not engage in cybersquatting because their "intentions at all times have been to register only domain names which incorporate common words and descriptive terms which Plaintiff believes in good faith are not subject to exclusive trademark rights." This argument assumes that words or phrases that are common or descriptive in relationship to some good or services are not arbitrary or suggestive in relationship to other goods or services.

Traditional Medicinals, Inc. submitted the dispute over smoothmove.com to the National Arbitration Forum (NAF) on February 15, 2009, which quickly decided the matter by April 7, 2009 and ordered Worldwide Media, Inc. to transfer ownership of the domain.

The suit filed by Worldwide Media, Inc. seeks a declaratory judgment declaring their ownership of smoothmove.com does not violate the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act and thereby nullify the decision and order issued by the NAF.

Cybersquatting has been defined as registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name with bad faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else.