paisa
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This happened sometime back,
One of my fellow domainer got sued by a multi-national corporation.
They have already great names in their portfolio, but they wanted to corporate rebrand.
There are 10000000s of domains, and the corporation wanted his domain name,
A classic David vs Goliath...,
When the negotiations didn’t go well, they sued him.
They did not offer any price. His asking price was $4888. His greed was not too much.
They sued him, and made threats.
They slapped a legal notice, and “publicly” revealing his identity, and citing domain was registered in bad faith, and that he was a “squatter”, and won the case.
This corporation has tons, and tons FII (foreign investors).,
It globally operates in many countries. And, most infamous.,
Angry that multi-national corporations have such lowly ethics, so as to slap a case on poor guy.
Now, he spent $1500 for UDRP, and more money and time on a “local” case against the corporation
Also, a well know lawyer was engaged for the case, but the result was in the MNC’s favor.
I also worked many long hours, sleepless nights on this case.,
I co-worked with the lawyer on many points..,
I referred so many books, studied many past cases, citied many references, but all in vain.
And, it has took a toll on everyone’s health!
The poor domainer has quit the industry. Now his better-half is holding few domains..
I don’t want to reveal the name publicly.
One of my fellow domainer got sued by a multi-national corporation.
They have already great names in their portfolio, but they wanted to corporate rebrand.
There are 10000000s of domains, and the corporation wanted his domain name,
A classic David vs Goliath...,
When the negotiations didn’t go well, they sued him.
They did not offer any price. His asking price was $4888. His greed was not too much.
They sued him, and made threats.
They slapped a legal notice, and “publicly” revealing his identity, and citing domain was registered in bad faith, and that he was a “squatter”, and won the case.
This corporation has tons, and tons FII (foreign investors).,
It globally operates in many countries. And, most infamous.,
Angry that multi-national corporations have such lowly ethics, so as to slap a case on poor guy.
Now, he spent $1500 for UDRP, and more money and time on a “local” case against the corporation
Also, a well know lawyer was engaged for the case, but the result was in the MNC’s favor.
I also worked many long hours, sleepless nights on this case.,
I co-worked with the lawyer on many points..,
I referred so many books, studied many past cases, citied many references, but all in vain.
And, it has took a toll on everyone’s health!
The poor domainer has quit the industry. Now his better-half is holding few domains..
I don’t want to reveal the name publicly.
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