NYC socialite struggles to control domain names.
New York real estate developer and socialite Janna Bullock has filed another cybersquatting lawsuit to recover domain names she says are similar to her name. Bullock filed the case against BullockJanna.com and Bullock-Janna.com in U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia. Her official web site is JannaBullock.com.
According to the complaint (pdf), Bullock brought a similar action against several domain names in May. The court granted summary judgment and ordered the domains transferred to Bullock. The two domain names at issue in the new complaint were registered shortly after the court ordered the previous domains transferred. Which means this could be a long game of whack-a-mole for Bullock, and she might consider going on the offensive to register similar domain names.
Bullock is a rags-to-riches story, moving from nanny to real estate mogul. But earlier this year the socialist became ensnared in a Russian scandal.
The sites appear to target the scandal, linking to the latest updates and news. The suit alleges that the domains currently at issue are made to look like Bullock’s official web site. Both sites are down at the time of writing, but a cache is available.
DR.DOMAIN says
“But earlier this year the socialist became ensnared…”
Typo? Whatever the case…I doubt she’s a “bootstrap” success story.Hubby sounds like a multi-tentacled fellow.
Aaron Krawitz says
The NYPost article on her is a pretty good read.
Landon White says
LOOK’S LIKE A PERSONAL VENDETTA ?
According to the Court Complaint…
Three(3)Domain Names Bulah-Janet.com BulahJanet.com
AND…JANETBULL.com
Einstein says
She’s famous? Would have known if not for this article, honestly.
Einstein says
NYpost has her story too now. I Google her husband’s name and looks like she was named Zhana Bulok in Russia.
She seems rags-to-riches but Russian style:
Looks like there’s a $1+ Billion missing from a Russian company connected to the state; her husband, an ex-Finance Minister is being chased by the state (er, the Russian mob) accused of taking land and money from the Russian state. Normally, I’d trust anyone but the Russian government, but…
“MOSCOW, October 20 (Itar-Tass) – The Investigations Committee under the Prosecutor General’s Office (SKP) has taken up the case against former Finance Minister of the Moscow region Alexei Kuznetsov, his first deputy Valery Nosov, Kuznetsov’s wife Zhanna Bulok and director general of the Russian Investment Group Dmitry Kotlyarenko.
“Earlier, the case was handled by the investigation department under the Interior Ministry,” SKP spokesman Vladimir Markin told Itar-Tass on Wednesday.
“The above persons are accused of grand theft of money which belonged to the Moscow region government in the person of the Moscow region Investment Trust Company (MOITK), as well as illegal acquisition of rights to state property, such as shares, stakes in the authorized capitals of various legal entities and property right to facilities under construction in the Moscow region. “
tortille says
The real surname of janna bullock (before the first marriage) was “samuilick”. She was graduated from the Belarusian State University (speciality “Russian language and literature”) in 1989 (in Minsk – the capital of Belarus). Her surname after the first marriage was Bulach.