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Private Domain Registration Not Evidence of Bad Faith
Posted by Rebecca Bolin on Wednesday, June 23 @ 19:08:27 EDT
Contributed by netzar
Privacy
netzar writes "In a post on CircleID, Martin Schwimmer says: 'In the recent court decision of CyBerCorp Holding v. Allman case, although the registrant of the domain name 'cybertraderlive.com' did lose the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) case and was found to have acted in bad faith (having been a former customer of complainant), the decision is noteworthy as it finds that registrant's use of proxy service to keep contact information private, in and of itself is not evidence of bad faith, given that there are good faith reasons for wanting to keep one's 'Whois' data private...'"
 
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