Lawsuit involved Chinese domain name investor and an investor who bought the domain on Sedo earlier this year. A Chinese domain name investor who says a valuable three-number domain was stolen from him has voluntarily dismissed his lawsuit. In ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
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Lawsuit alleges 509.com, sold for $106k in March, was stolen
· Policy & LawChinese man who paid $295,000 says domain is stolen. A domain name investor acquired 509.com through Sedo in March for $106,000. According to NameBio, the domain sold for $295,000 in 2018. Why did the domain seller take such a loss? There appears ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Lawsuit alleges CEOs.com, xus.com and other domains are stolen
· Policy & LawMan alleges that eight domains were stolen from his domain registrar account. A California man says that CEOs.com, xus.com, and six other domain names were stolen from his Network Solutions account. Aiping (“Alan”) Wei, Ph.D., filed an in rem ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Lawsuit alleges 445.com is a stolen domain name [Updated]
· Policy & LawChinese citizen files lawsuit against valuable domain name. [Update: the owner of the domains, Richard Blair, told the court he bought the domain at Sedo in January 2021. The plaintiff filed a voluntary motion to dismissed.] A lawsuit (pdf) ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Stolen “Go” domains end up in court battle
· Policy & LawMany of the domain names were subsequently sold. 15 domain names beginning with "go" have allegedly been stolen and many of them have been resold — creating a complicated issue now in the courts. Scott Petretta registered the domain names about ... Continue Reading4 Comments
Calculator.com owner dismisses stolen domain case against Stands4
· Policy & LawDomain owner dismisses case after domain buyer agrees to not contest her ownership. The owner of Calculator.com has dismissed her lawsuit with prejudice against Stands4 Ltd. Stands4 bought the domain name for $180,000 in June. But it turns ... Continue Reading13 Comments
Original Calculator.com owner sues, claims domain is stolen
· Policy & LawDomain name investors alerted domain owner to possible theft. The original registrant of Calculator.com has filed a lawsuit (pdf) to recover the domain name, which it says was stolen from it. [See case update here.] Chloe Tsakiris Alston says ... Continue Reading7 Comments
UDRP: Joking .com was stolen
· Policy & LawFormer owner will get domain back through UDRP challenge. A National Arbitration Forum panel has ordered the domain name Joking(.)com be transferred back to its previous owner. A man who said he's owned the domain name since 1997 filed a ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Lawsuit alleges Pay.io is a stolen domain name
· Policy & LawCompany recently realized that its valuable domain name was missing. A lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Arizona alleges that the domain name Pay.io is stolen. Deltaventure GmbH, a German company, filed the lawsuit (pdf) against the domain ... Continue Reading6 Comments
Man who paid $360k for 81.com says it’s stolen
· Policy & LawDubai man files lawsuit to recover domain. A man who says he paid $360,000 to buy the domain 81.com alleges it has been stolen. Sami Debizet filed an in rem lawsuit (pdf) against the domain in U.S. District Court in Virginia in an effort to ... Continue Reading9 Comments