Talk about a scary decision.

Decision D2009-1493

A domainer just lost a domain he paid $20,000 to acquire and recently valued it at $100K.

A three member WIPO panel took away, what most of us would regard to be a Geo domain, Hayward.com and wwwhayward.com and awarded it to the trademark holder Hayward Industries.

Hayward is a city in California with a population of 150,000 people.

Here are the facts as laid out by the panel...