Just to make sure everyone is clear, I don't think it was that he deliberately chose to make it go to sometimes HP and sometimes Dell product pages. Rather it has for years been using Bodis it seems much of the time with no-click (mentioned in decision, and wayback archive seems to show that, and I researched from history of where DNS were pointed for the domain name). Note that the decision says the following:
"Instead, the Domain Name redirects visitors to multiple domain names before eventually resolving at some times to product pages on Complainant’s website or at other times to the web sites of competitors of Complainant."
Source:
https://domaingang.com/domain-law/dell-grabs-typo-domain-drll-com-via-the-udrp-process
It is the following part of the decision that bothers me. Later they talk about typography, multi-page redirection, etc. and I realize how important those are. But this part seems to say that the domain drll is confusingly similar to dell.
"Respondent’s <drll.com> Domain Name is confusingly similar to Complainant’s DELL mark. It incorporates a misspelled version of Complainant’s mark, merely substituting the letter “e” with an “r” and adding the gTLD “.com.” These changes do not distinguish the Domain Name from Complainant’s mark for the purposes of Policy"
I hope one of the legal experts will write a fuller post on this case at some time.
I think this demonstrates many things, including the dangers of using a parking service that you have no control over the ads presented. I think some in the thread misunderstand and think that he directed it to Amazon Dell products or HP products. As I read the case the Bodis parking sometimes sent users there. If you use Wayback you can see various snapshots, including some rather unsavoury ones.
Yes, quite probably the type-in was because drll is on keyboard near to dell. Does that mean that the 4 letter dwll is also problematic if it used parking ads? Or various other similar mistakes? Once one gets to 4 letter domain names with one letter different it really opens up something that in my mind is worrying to those with 4 letter domains almost all of which would be only one letter different from some TM.
Bob