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Kenyon successfully represented Walmart, one of the world's largest retailers, in a Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy domain name proceeding before the World Intellectual Property Organization concerning the domain names walmartrecruiting.com, wal-martrecruiting.com and walmart-recruiting.com. The complaint stated that email addresses associated with walmartrecruiting.com were created and used “as part of a scheme to divert [Walmart]’s consumers to Respondents’ web site and... by seeking “secret shoppers” to shop at [Walmart] stores on Respondents’ behalf.” It was believed that this scheme was created for the respondent’s own financial gain.

The WIPO Panel found that the domain names were confusingly similar to Walmart’s trademark, that the respondents lacked “rights or legitimate interest” to the domains, and that the domains were registered in bad faith. Case number D2010-0168 (2010).