Tag Archives: lawsuits

Fri 4th June 2010
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Woops! Court Appointed Receiver Lets Zuccarini Domains Expire, Auctioned Off on NameJet - Domains that were part of legal judgment are accidentally auctioned off. Congratulations Michael Berkens, you’ve just uncovered a big mess by accident. On May 25, Berkens wrote about the auctioning off of GovermentGrants.com on NameJet for $53,022. The story also mentions other expired domains that sold on NameJet at the same time, such as USGoverment.com for $4,950, GovermentGrant.com for $3,950, GovermentAuction.com for $2,750, and GovermentAuctions.com $2,500. But ... read more ...
Mon 31st May 2010
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Original Registrant of CamRoulette.com Sued - CamRoulette.com subject to lawsuit. It’s the deal that keeps on giving. The domain name world was shocked when CamRoulette.com sold for $151,000. The original registrant of the domain name was kicking himself for selling it for only $1,400. But now he has bigger problems: another person says he had an agreement to buy the domain name for $700. He’s suing for $150,300, the difference between what he offered to buy the domain for and what it sold for at auction. The ... read more ...
Tue 25th May 2010
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Two Defendants Respond to Verizon Cybersquatting Lawsuit - Response filed in Verizon domain name lawsuit. Two defendants in a lawsuit filed by Verizon alleging cybersquatting have responded to the suit. Both The Producers, Inc., and Michael Gardner have responded to Verizon’s allegations that they registered domains related to Verizon trademarks. The somewhat bizarre case revolves around what DirectNIC does with domain names when they expire but are not yet deleted. Like most registrars, DirectNIC removes the registrant’s ... read more ...
Mon 22nd March 2010
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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 ...
Fri 5th February 2010
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Judge Says SnapNames Lawsuit Might be Too Small for Class Action - Amount in question may be below $5 million required for class action case. U.S. District Judge Margaret M. Morrow is asking the plaintiffs bringing a class action against SnapNames over the insider bidding scandal to show that the controversy exceeds $5 million. Under the Class Action Fairness Act, the amount at issue in a lawsuit must exceed $5 million (not including interest and costs) to qualify for class action status. In the case of Stewart Resmer vs. Oversee.net ... read more ...
Thu 17th December 2009
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Goodwill Non-Profit Sues to Get Goodwill.com Domain Name - Charity sues company that bought domain name for $55,000 in NameJet domain name auction. Non-profit Goodwill Industries International has sued the owner of Goodwill.com for alleged trademark infringement. The lawsuit (pdf) names Cyber2Media, Inc., the owner of the domain, and Oversee.net, which briefly monetized the domain on its DomainSponsor platform, as defendants. For years, the domain name Goodwill.com was used by Goodwill Group, Inc., a Japanese staffing company. ... read more ...
Fri 20th November 2009
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Indictment Shows Ease of Hijacking Domain Name - Three hackers indicted for hijacking domain name. An indictment against three hackers involved in hijacking the Comcast.net domain name last year shows how easy it is to pull it off: just get access to the administrative contact’s email address. The U.S. government has charged three hackers with doing just that, and using the email address to change the nameservers on Comcast.net at domain name registrar Network Solutions. Blame the hackers, but also Comcast for ... read more ...
Thu 12th November 2009
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A Peek Inside a SnapNames Lawsuit - Lawyer filed claim on behalf of brother. Earlier today I talked to Santiago A. Cueto, the first lawyer to file a lawsuit against SnapNames for the insider bidding scandal. He was quick to the docket because lead plaintiff Carlos A. Cueto is his brother. While other firms were trying to find a lead plaintiff, Santiago’s brother was emailing him the details. This is an interesting case because SnapNames has already admitted wrong doing and offered to compensate ... read more ...
Wed 21st October 2009
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AAA Auto Club Gets AAA.net Domain Name…and Porn Names - AAA gets hands on AAA.net. But it is overstepping its bounds. American Automobile Association (AAA) has been awarded the domain name AAA.net after filing a lawsuit against its owners. AAA had lost a UDRP arbitration at National Arbitration Forum for the domain name, and then sued the owners of the domain in U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania. The National Arbitration Forum got it right — but in this case the defendants’ behavior with other ... read more ...
Fri 15th May 2009
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Woman Sues GoDaddy for Alleged Discrimination - Former employee alleges company ignored complaints about harassment. A former GoDaddy employee has sued the company in U.S. District Court, alleging it discriminated against her after she complained of sexual harassment. In the lawsuit, Rachel Pearson alleges that a co-worker engaged in “many offensive, hostile, and threatening acts” such as staring at her and touching her inappropriately. She claims that GoDaddy did not respond properly to her allegations, ... read more ...
Wed 24th December 2008
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Verizon Wins $33 Million in Cybersquatting Case - Verizon wins default judgment against top 15 domain registrar. Customers of OnlineNic, Inc., a top 15 domain registrar with over 1,000,000 domains registered, should be concerned about the state of the registrar after a judge ordered the company to pay $33 million to Verizon (NYSE: VZ). A judge entered the default judgment of $50,000 for each of the 663 domain names OnlineNic owned that allegedly infringed Verizon’s trademarks. OnlineNic didn’t respond to the ... read more ...