Apparently Facebook has not only continued their practice of filing disputes for domains names it saw infringing on its trademarks but now also has changed gears and filed a suit on July 22nd against more than 100 parties claiming Cybersquatting, Trademark infringement, False Designation of Origin, Trademark Dilution, Breach of Contract and Tortious Interference . The filing with the United States District Court for the Northern District of California (PDF) lists 104 different domains with the majority of names containing the term “facebook” in some variation (i.e. facebooki.com) but also lists the domains (14) that the typo-domains are/were redirected to (i.e. 1939.com which according to a notice posted on the site was a redirect service at one point and SocialRewardCenter.com).
The listed defendants are:
- Cyber2Media, Inc.
- Daniel Negari
- Cleanser Products
- Counter Balance Enterprises Ltd.
- FB Promotions/Freebie Promos
- Mackrooner Ltd. Inc.
- Newgate Services Ltd.
- Pioneer Enterprises Ltd.
- Rabbit Gogo Media LLC
- SMTM Enterprises Ltd.
- YourTick
- Zilt
- Jacob Daniels
- Jerry Hui
- Ryan Johnson
- Eric Jordan
- Karrie-Lee Karreman
- June Kimchi
- Tim Meyers
- Ankit Pandey
- S. Pace
- Elise Petri
- Mark Risi
- John Souza
- Michael Suggs
- and John/Jane Does 1-119
This topic was also covered by Elliot Silver and Bill Hartzer. Hat tip to Domain Trader.
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