European Wax Center’s Win Over Confusing Domain Names Affirmed

The domain names “europawaxcenter.com” and “euwaxcenter.com” are similar enough to European Wax Center’s trademark on its name to confuse consumers, the Eleventh Circuit affirmed.

Bryan Boigris appealed a U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida ruling that he violated the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act when he registered the domain names on GoDaddy.com.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit upheld the ruling in a 2-1 decision Friday. “What we have here is overwhelming similarity in sight and sound plus an identical meaning in the core of each disputed phrase (‘waxcenter’), all against a whisper of a ...