May 2002 Addidas.com WIPO Adidas-Salomon AG v. Legueret Dominique

In 2005 addidas.com was bought for $13,009 from Enom’s Club Drop . Then Received a WIPO Adidas-Salomon AG v. Jim Yoon / Yunkook Jung

2008 addidas.com was aquired through snapnames by ”ever ready domains” yet apparently is still pending payment as the nameservers are in interim:

NS1.INTERIMNAMESERVER.COM
NS2.INTERIMNAMESERVER.COM

What this means I guess is the WIPO process can be used as long as a trademark is relevant. A company like Adidas can easily spare the legal retainer and UDRP fees. It is however quite irresponsible of Adidas to let the name expire not once, not twice, but three times. Unfortunatly they are just throwing money down the drain, and nothing is being accomplished except more lawyers being paid (yawn.)