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Re:Facebook sues Namecheap by gist on Thursday March 05, 2020 @05:41PM (#22499132)
Effective strategy on the part of facebook. Namecheap can either decide to spend untold sums and fight this (and let's see the amount and how that goes) or they can turn over the info and move on. No legitimate customer of namecheap that isn't fishing is going to take this as anything important to them and importantly even if they even know it's happening.

I don't get all of this rah rah.

My question for you (the OP) is how many domains do you have with namecheap? And how many customers like you do you think make up their business?

Nobody is filing a lawsuit to uncover whois privacy info trivially unless the reason makes sense (on the end of the person wanting the info).

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Re:Facebook sues Namecheap by ensignavenger on Thursday March 05, 2020 @06:28PM (#22499530)
I have several, but not as many as I have had registered either for myself or customers in the past. I will probably have more in the future.

I am fine with Facebook filing a suit in a court of competent jurisdiction to get this information. However, they don't state what they are seeking in their post. Further, they attack Namecheap as if Namecheap were doing something wrong.

I don't expect Namecheap to spend a fortune fighting this- but I would like to see due process followed. If a proper court of competent jurisdiction rules that Namecheap has to reveal the identity of the domain owners, and their are no bounds for appeal, and Namecheap does, that is an acceptable legal outcome.

The problem is Facebook trying to paint Namecheap as being in the wrong here, when it appears that they are doing the right thing.

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