Company files cybersquatting lawsuit to get control of inflammatory web site.
San Francisco based investment firm New Island Capital has filed an in rem case against NewIslandCapital.com.
The company uses the domain name NewIslandCap.com. This should be a cautionary tale for any financial firm that doesn’t shore up important domain names.
The registrant of NewIslandCapital.com has put up a page page that reads:
New Island Capital ↗ Distinguishable
This company is based in the United States. We’re in Asia. They are in an office. We’re in the sun and fresh air. They deal in liquid assets. We deal in liquid water on the beach. They have suits. We have bathing suits. They have office hours. We … don’t!
Do you see the difference? Of course? We give you an enthusiastic thumbs-up! Which is way better than what a Ponzi scheme gives you.
The site also mentions Madoff.
It also alludes to a Facebook fan page “hijacking”.
According to the suit, New Island Capital customers have accidentally sent emails to NewIslandCapital.com.
This is a big issue for firms that communicate with sensitive financial information via email. Especially for financial firms, I highly recommend going overboard to acquire relevant domain names to secure your brand identity.
RaTHeaD says
that’s why i got RaTHeaD.CoM early on.
there might be alot of other ratheads
on the internet… but i am the only RaTHeaD.CoM . when people realize how valuable stupid stuff is… i’ll move on and find something even stupider.
R Mencina says
Weird the investment firm registerend newislandcap.com in 2006, but not newislandcapital.com Looks like it was just available in 2010. And now the island owns it. No cybersquatting. Lame the investment firm didn’t acquire the relevant domain.