Register.com: Baidu Can’t Sue Us for Negligence. Its In Our Contract. -
Domain name registrar argues that you can’t sue it for negligence because it’s in the TOS.
What happens if you register a domain name at Register.com and then Register.com screws up? Tough luck.
That’s the message the company is sending by asking a court to dismiss a lawsuit Baidu brought against it for handing over the keys to its account to a criminal.
In a motion to dismiss (pdf), Register.com’s representatives write:
Asserting a laundry list of inflammatory ... read more ...
Tag Archives: baidu
Mon 22nd March 2010
Wed 24th February 2010
How Baidu Got Hacked by a Iranian Cyber Army -
Court documents show how imposter allegedly duped Register.com into handing over access to Baidu.com.
Last month visitors to Baidu.com were redirected to a page stating that the site had been hacked by the Iranian Cyber Army.
Baidu later sued Register.com for allegedly allowing a security intrusion that enabled the hackers to change the name servers for Baidu.com. But the original lawsuit redacted the essential facts about how the hackers got control of Baidu’s ... read more ...
Tue 19th January 2010
Baidu Sues Register.com Over Hacking Incident -
Domain name registrar sued over alleged security breach.
[Update: The court has now published an unredacted version of the lawsuit, detailing how Baidu alleges Register.com gave the keys to its domain to a hacker.]
Baidu, Inc. announced that it has sued domain name registrar Register.com over a hacking incident by Iranian Cyber Army earlier this month. Baidu claims that Register.com was negligent, allowing the hackers to change the DNS for the domain name.
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Wed 9th December 2009
European Company Threatens Baidu Search Engine -
Baidu Europe hopes to extort big bucks out of popular search engine.
Remember Baidu? Not the Chinese search giant, but the European software company that has promoted its trademarks and baidu.tld domain names for sale? Well, it’s putting its brand and domain names up for sale. And it’s not hiding the fact that it hopes the big search engine buys them.
In a brash press release about the sale on eBay, the company specifically cites Baidu the search company:
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Mon 12th January 2009
Telnic Trips Up with Baidu.tel -
Company touts first-come-first-served .tel rights, but it sends a mixed message.
Telnic, the company behind the new .tel top level domain name, sent me a press release today touting that Baidu.tel had been awarded to Baidu Europe, a company that uses Baidu.eu. .Tel has a first-come policy for claiming trademark domain names during the sunrise message.
The implicit message is that Baidu, the Chinese search engine, didn’t get the domain because it didn’t apply ... read more ...