Company alleges that Inch.com and Siteline.com are stolen.
A New York internet service provider has filed a lawsuit (pdf) to recover Inch.com and Siteline.com, which it says are stolen domain names that the company registered in 1995.
Internet Channel Corp. filed the in rem lawsuit in Virginia last week. It notes that Inch.com still resolves to a website about its business.
The domains have an interesting history. The historical Whois records at DomainTools change from Internet Channel to Thorn Communications in 2006.
I can’t find much information about Thorn Communications, but a Yelp review states that the company is non-responsive. The phone number on its website doesn’t work. And the company’s landlord won a judgment against it.
Thorn is an outsourced IT shop, so these domains might be stuck in limbo.
Bashar Al-Abdulhadi says
So it’s stolen since 2006 or what?
I have a similar case for a client and was thinking it all be close to impossible to recover his domains
Andrew Allemann says
That’s not entirely clear from the lawsuit.
thelegendaryjp says
Interesting, I believe many years ago I spoke with the owner regarding the name and others he owned. It took me some tracking him down but it’s what I do lol Any ways he wasn’t willing to sell. I am sure he owned a few other nice names too but cannot recall.
John Berryhill says
I like the way that Weslow puts a copyright notice on each page of his pleadings, instead of one notice on the entire work. Presumably he believes that each page is a separate work for the purpose of copyright.