Re:Facebook sues Namecheap
by AnthonyMouse on Thursday March 05, 2020 @10:42PM
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> To use my personal example again, the domain was autostempest.com
So then they claim their company is called Auto Stem Pest in the business of selling automatic pest control devices, and their website had your logo on it "temporarily" because it had been compromised by third party malicious hackers.
Somebody has to decide whether that story is a load of BS. But it's a thing that could realistically have happened, and Namecheap has neither the resources nor the qualifications to stand in judgement.
> Going to court just wasn't an option. For one thing, we couldn't even identify the people behind these sites without first going to court against namecheap. And after all that effort and expense, it's entirely possible they'd registered the domain with fake info and the effort would have been wasted.
The thing is, that's what happens anyway. Most of the people doing this are in countries that just don't care. Having their names generally won't do you any good.
> Even the UDRP option was not cost effective, because nothing would stop the scammers from opening a new fake domain.
Which points to domains being a bad point of attack to go after them. It's like trying to catch cat burglars by maligning department stores that sell gloves. It's just not a useful place to apply pressure.
For fraudsters in a friendly jurisdiction, courts work, because the process is a pain in the butt but at the end of it they go to jail which is a large enough deterrent that it mostly stops them to begin with.
When they're in an antagonistic jurisdiction (which is most common), the law can't help you, because it isn't your law that applies. At that point you're down to technical and market solutions, like the one you found.
So then they claim their company is called Auto Stem Pest in the business of selling automatic pest control devices, and their website had your logo on it "temporarily" because it had been compromised by third party malicious hackers.
Somebody has to decide whether that story is a load of BS. But it's a thing that could realistically have happened, and Namecheap has neither the resources nor the qualifications to stand in judgement.
> Going to court just wasn't an option. For one thing, we couldn't even identify the people behind these sites without first going to court against namecheap. And after all that effort and expense, it's entirely possible they'd registered the domain with fake info and the effort would have been wasted.
The thing is, that's what happens anyway. Most of the people doing this are in countries that just don't care. Having their names generally won't do you any good.
> Even the UDRP option was not cost effective, because nothing would stop the scammers from opening a new fake domain.
Which points to domains being a bad point of attack to go after them. It's like trying to catch cat burglars by maligning department stores that sell gloves. It's just not a useful place to apply pressure.
For fraudsters in a friendly jurisdiction, courts work, because the process is a pain in the butt but at the end of it they go to jail which is a large enough deterrent that it mostly stops them to begin with.
When they're in an antagonistic jurisdiction (which is most common), the law can't help you, because it isn't your law that applies. At that point you're down to technical and market solutions, like the one you found.