On August 12, 2026, a single-member panel at the World Intellectual Property Organization's Arbitration and Mediation Center in Geneva ordered the domain justforfans.app transferred to JFF Publications LLC, the parent company of adult creator platform JustFor.fans, finding it had been registered and used in bad faith. AVN and JRL Charts both reported the decision on August 17.

Why It Matters

Adult creator platforms live with a level of brand impersonation that mainstream tech does not tolerate — lookalike domains harvesting subscription payments, phishing creators' logins, and siphoning fan traffic. What makes them structurally vulnerable is that the usual remedies are weaker here: search engines demote the category, ad platforms won't run brand-defense campaigns, and payment processors are as likely to treat the *victim* as high-risk as the impostor. That's why a UDRP win is worth more to this industry than the modest filing fee suggests. UDRP is fast, cheap relative to litigation, does not require the respondent to be findable or cooperative, and — as here — works across borders against an anonymous registrant in another jurisdiction. The lesson embedded in the decision is about paperwork: JFF prevailed largely because it could document continuous use back to February 2018 and hold registrations across four markets. Creator platforms that treated trademark filings as a someday expense should read this as the argument for doing it now. Note too that a respondent-side national trademark registration obtained years after the complainant's first use did not save the domain.

JFF Publications, represented by the French firm Adsto, filed its UDRP complaint on June 16. The disputed domain had been registered on July 7, 2021 through Cloudflare, the San Francisco–based ICANN-accredited registrar, with registrar records identifying the respondent as Ogandi Peraza, an individual apparently located in Estonia. WIPO commenced proceedings June 23 and set July 13 as the response deadline; no response was filed, and default was notified July 27. Rebecca Slater was appointed sole panelist on August 4.

A default does not hand over a domain automatically — JFF still had to prove all three UDRP elements, and it did. On timing, the company's position was strong: it registered JustFor.fans on January 19, 2018 and told WIPO it had used JUSTFORFANS in commerce since at least February 2018. Its US trademark registered January 13, 2026 with a first-use-in-commerce date of February 14, 2018, and it holds registrations in the UK (February 2024), France (June 2025) and Canada. Per AVN's reporting, an entity tied to Peraza had registered a "JUSTFORFANS" trademark with the Estonian Patent Office in 2023 — after JFF's first use.

The panel found decisively for the complainant. "Having reviewed the available record, the panel finds the complainant has established a prima facie case that the Respondent lacks rights or legitimate interests in the disputed domain name," Slater wrote, per AVN. "This finding is reinforced by the respondent's use of the disputed domain name to provide a subscription service and platform which is very similar to the complainant's offering. This amounts to 'opportunistic bad faith' under the policy." She added it was "unlikely that the disputed domain name was registered without knowledge of the complainant."

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Update — 2026-08-18

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