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Register.Com Sued for Re-Direction
Posted by Steven Wu on Wednesday, April 23 @ 17:18:21 EDT News
From the New York Law Journal:
The [class action] suit, filed in state Supreme Court in Manhattan, alleges that Register.com, which registers domain names for a $35 fee, misused the Internet addresses of new customers by redirecting those links to a "Coming Soon" Web page until the customers developed Web sites of their own.

The "Coming Soon" page contained advertisements for Register.com and other companies.

. . . .

[The lead plaintiff claims that] Register.com used his Web address without his permission to direct others to the company's own site and to sell advertisements.

 
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Re: Register.Com Sued for Re-Direction (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Thursday, April 24 @ 10:13:06 EDT
Any registrant who has a clue is perfectly capable of changing the domain to go to the page of their own choice, or to make it fail to resolve at all. What this suit is basically saying is that most registrants are clueless, and deserve compensation for this fact.


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Re: Register.Com Sued for Re-Direction (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Friday, April 25 @ 14:11:18 EDT
I think this is an interesting case, with a plausible cause of action. Regardless of whether people are capable of changing the settings so that the page is not used for Register.com's advertisements, the question is really this: why should Register.com be able to use a registered domain for advertising without compensating the customer, or at least getting their consent?


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