The decision comes after the video game company, which was founded by former Rockstar North President and Grand Theft Auto series producer, Leslie Benzies, filed a Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution (UDRP) against Build a Rocket GmbH, seeking to take possession of the domain BuildARocket.com.
Here’s what Alexiev said in the decision: Build a Rocket Boy is a video game company that’s currently working on a AAA NFT title, Everywhere. With Benzies at the helm, Build a Rocket Boy’s upcoming game is expected to garner a fair bit of attention. However, this kind of publicity won’t help. Benzies’ company, which currently uses the domain BuildARocketBoy.com, filed a UDRP against Build a Rocket GmbH, an esports agency that uses the domain name BuildARocket.com. Basically, what Benzies’ studio tried to do is to claim ownership of BuildARocket.com. Build a Rocket Boy claimed that Build a Rocket’s ownership of the domain amounts to cybersquatting. It argued that the agency does not have a globally relevant business and shouldn’t own the .com domain. Build a Rocket was founded in 2016 and acquired the domain in question, BuildARocket.com, in 2018, the same year that Benzies’ company was founded. Clearly, the UDRP panelist didn’t agree with Build a Rocket Boy’s agruments. Benzies recently revealed his upcoming project, Everywhere. His last project with Rockstar, Grand Theft Auto 5, has shipped over 170 million copies in less than a decade. Take-Two Interactive CEO, Strauss Zelnick, revealed this milestone while confirming that work on GTA 6 will go on as planned despite the huge leak a few months ago.
