WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center ADMINISTRATIVE PANEL DECISION Afton Chemical Corporation v. Anene Obi Case No. D2019-0086 1. The Parties

The Complainant is Afton Chemical Corporation of Richmond, Virginia, United States of America (“United States”), represented by Day Pitney LLP, United States.

The Respondent is Anene Obi of Berlin, Germany. 2. The Domain Name and Registrar

The disputed domain name (the “Disputed Domain Name”) is registered with PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainR (the “Registrar”). 3. Procedural History

The Complaint was filed with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center (the “Center”) on January 15, 2019. On January 16, 2019, the Center transmitted by email to the Registrar a request for registrar verification in connection with the Disputed Domain Name. On January 17, 2019, the Registrar transmitted by email to the Center its verification response disclosing registrant and contact information for the Disputed Domain Name which differed from the named Respondent and contact information in the Complaint. The Center sent an email communication to the Complainant on January 17, 2019 providing the registrant and contact information disclosed by the Registrar and inviting the Complainant to submit an amendment to the Complaint. The Complainant filed an amended Complaint on January 19, 2019.

The Center verified that the Complaint together with the amended Complaint satisfied the formal requirements of the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the “Policy” or “UDRP”), the Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the “Rules”), and the WIPO Supplemental Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the “Supplemental Rules”).

In accordance with the Rules, paragraphs 2 and 4, the Center formally notified the Respondent of the Complaint, and the proceedings commenced on January 22, 2019. In accordance with the Rules, paragraph 5, the due date for Response was February 11, 2019. The Respondent did not submit any response. Accordingly, the Center notified the Respondent’s default on February 12, 2019.

The Center appointed Michael D. Cover as the sole panelist in this matter on February 25, 2019. The Panel finds that it was properly constituted. The Panel has submitted the Statement of Acceptance and Declaration of Impartiality and Independence, as required by the Center to ensure compliance with the Rules, paragraph 7. 4. Factual Background

The Complainant is a global developer and manufacturer of fuel and lubricant oils and provides services in relation to these products. The Complainant has used its name and trademark since 2004 and has registered trademarks for AFTON CHEMICAL in the United States (e.g., United States Reg. No. 3059527, registered on February 14, 2006) and other jurisdictions in relation to the products and services that it provides under that trademark. Certain of those trademark registrations are set out in Annex 5 to the Complaint and copies of the certificates of registration of those trademark are set out in Annex 6 to the Complaint.

All that is known about the Respondent is the name Anene Obi of Berlin, Germany.

The Disputed Domain Name was registered on November 3, 2018, and resolves to an inactive website. The Respondent appears as “GDPR Masked” in the WhoIs for the Disputed Domain Name.

The Complainant first became aware of the Disputed Domain Name on November 13, 2018, when it received a copy of an email from a customer purporting to be from an Afton Chemical Customer Relationship Supervisor, requesting payment to what was described as a sister company bank account in Hong Kong. This was forwarded to the Complainant by the customer in question, who had become suspicious. The relevant emails are set out in Annex 4 to the Complaint. 5. Parties’ Contentions A. Complainant Identical or Confusingly Similar

The Complainant sets out that the Disputed Domain Name is nearly identical and confusingly similar to a trademark in which it has rights and notes that it is the proprietor of the registered trademarks set out above and trades as AFTON CHEMICAL, also as set out above.

The Complainant goes on to set out that the Disputed Domain Name is clearly similar to its trademark AFTON CHEMICAL, the only difference being the reversal of the “i” and the “c”.

The Complainant submits that the Disputed Domain Name contains the Complainant’s trademark AFTON CHEMICAL in its entirety, subject to the typographical error already noted. The Complainant goes on to submit that numerous UDRP panels have recognized that the incorporation of a trademark in its entirety can be