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+<define-tag pagetitle>Ownership of <q>debian.community</q> domain</define-tag>
+<define-tag release_date>2022-08-07</define-tag>
+#use wml::debian::news
+
+<p>
+The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), under its
+Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP),
+decided that ownership of the <q><a href="https://debian.community">debian.community</a></q> domain
+should be <a href="https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/search/case.jsp?case=D2022-1524">transferred to the Debian Project</a>.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The appointed panel found that <q>the disputed domain name is identical to a trademark
+in which the Complainant has rights.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+In its decision the panel noted:
+<p>
+
+<blockquote>
+[...] the disputed domain name is identical to the DEBIAN mark, which carries a high risk
+of implied affiliation with the Complainant. [...] Given that the Complainant prominently
+describes Debian on its homepage as a 'community' and not just an operating system,
+[the .community] suffix actually reinforces that the disputed domain name will resolve to a
+site operated or endorsed by [Debian]. The disputed domain name contains no critical or
+other terms to dispel or qualify that false impression.
+</blockquote>
+
+<p>
+The panel went on to observe:
+</p>
+
+<blockquote>
+The evidence submitted by the Complainant shows that some posts present the DEBIAN
+mark together with information about a notorious sex cult, notorious sex offenders, and
+enslavement of women, and one post displays photographs of physical branding allegedly on
+victims’ genital skin. The segues from information about the Complainant to this type of
+information are contrived and the scale of this information is not merely incidental on the
+website. In the Panel’s view, these posts are deliberately intended to create a false
+association between the DEBIAN trademark and offensive phenomena and thereby tarnish
+the mark.
+</blockquote>
+
+<p>
+and further concluded that:
+</p>
+
+<blockquote>
+nothing in the Debian Social Contract or elsewhere indicates that the Complainant has ever
+consented to the type of false associations with its mark published by the respondent on its
+website. The Respondent points out that the DEBIAN mark is registered only in respect of
+software. However, while the relevant posts attack members of the Complainant who make
+available DEBIAN software, rather than the software itself, these posts use the mark in
+combination with the disputed domain name in a way that intentionally seeks to create false
+associations with the mark itself.
+</blockquote>
+
+<p>
+Debian is committed to the proper use of its trademarks subject to its 
+<a href="$(HOME)/trademark">trademark policy</a>
+and will continue to take enforcement action when that policy is violated.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The content of <q>debian.community</q> has now been replaced by a 
+<a href="$(HOME)/legal/debian-community-site">page</a>
+explaining the situation and answering further questions.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+WIPO's full decision text is available online:
+<a href="https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/search/case.jsp?case_id=58273">https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/search/case.jsp?case_id=58273</a>
+
+<h2>About Debian</h2>
+
+<p>The Debian Project is an association of Free Software developers who
+volunteer their time and effort in order to produce the completely free
+operating system Debian.</p>
+
+<h2>Contact Information</h2>
+
+<p>For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at
+<a href="$(HOME)/">https://www.debian.org/</a> or send mail to
+&lt;press@debian.org&gt;.</p>