On December 29, 2014, the Respondent sent an e-mail to the Panel with the following text: “Re.: HK-1400668 <open-taobao.com>, <tao-0.com>, <tao-api.info>, <taoimagine.com>, <tao-mama.com>, <tao-sp.org>, <тао-бао.com> (xn---7sbbd7ddw.com), <таобао-форум.com> (xn----7sbad1dicbsmtj.com) & <taobaosp.org> _ Complaint Form and Annexures Здравствуйте, я получил письма об этих доменных именах. Их хотят отобрать, как я понял. Скажите, есть ли способ их сохранить?” The text in Russian means “Hello, I received messages about these domain names. As I understood, they want to take them from me. Let me know, if there a way to keep them?” 4. Parties’ Contentions A. Complainant The Complainant’s contentions may be summarized as follows: i. The Complainant asserts that the Disputed Domain Names are identical and/or confusingly similar to the TAOBAO trademarks in which the Complainant has rights. The Complainant claims it registered numerous TAO and TAOBAO trademarks around the world, so it has rights in the TAO and the TAOBAO marks. The Complainant alleges that the Disputed Domain Names <opentaobao.com>; <tao-0.com>; <tao-api.info>; <tao-imagine.com>; <taomama.com>; <tao-sp.org>; and <taobao-sp.org> incorporate its TAO or TAOBAO marks in their entirety. According to the Complainant, addition of the generic words “open,” “imagine,” “mama,”, the number "0", the hyphen and the letters "api" and "sp", do not negate the confusing similarity between the Complainants’ TAO or TAOBAO trademarks and the abovementioned Disputed Domain Names. The Complainant further asserts that the Disputed Domain Names <тао-бао.com> (xn----7sbbd7ddw.com) and <таобао-форум.com> are also confusingly similar to the TAOBAO trademark, because they incorporate the TAOBAO trademark in its entirety. The Complainant claims that use of the Cyrillic characters “т” and “б” does not negate the confusing similarity between the trademark and the Disputed Domain Names. The Complainant asserts that the word “таобаo” is a widely used as the Russian translation of the Complainant’s TAOBAO trademark. The Complainant alleges that adding the generic Russian word “форум” (which means “forum” in English) in the Disputed Domain Name <таобао-форум.com> does nothing to distinguish it from the Complainant’s trademark. Finally, the Complainant claims that the generic Top Level Domain (“gTLD”) suffix “.com” should be disregarded from consideration in the likelihood of confusion analysis. ii. The Complainant alleges that the Respondent has no rights or legitimate interests in the Disputed Domain Names. The Complainant claims that the TAOBAO or TAO trademarks have no meaning in English or Russian other than in relation to the Complainant and its trademarks, which were that were registered between eight and eleven years prior to the Respondent’s registration of the Disputed Domain Names. The Complainant alleges that the Respondent owns no trademark rights in either the TAOBAO or TAO trademark. The Complainant Page 4