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Sure, and I suppose you could decree yourself ruler of the world, too. Reality, however, is another matter entirely. France will not win a legal battle over t
by maxk42 8y ago
Sure, and I suppose you could decree yourself ruler of the world, too. Reality, however, is another matter entirely.
France will not win a legal battle over this outside of France.
- tripletao 8y agoBut the weird thing is that France didn't have to--the American registrar obeyed their order, for no clear reason. The domain has now been transferred to a French registrar. So even if an American court would never have ordered the domain transferred, it will be trickier (but probably not impossible, since Verisign ultimately controls .com and that's a US entity) for an America court order to get it back.
- jacquesm 8y ago> So even if an American court would never have ordered the domain transferred American courts are typically quite sensitive to arguments made based on trademark law.
- ryanlol 8y agoThere’s simply nothing tricky about American courts taking over .com domains, at least not for the courts.
- tripletao 8y agoI'm betting he incurs more legal fees than if the domain were still at a US registrar; but yeah, I agree that if a US court orders the .com back to him, then they can make it happen. The whole story is weird. When web.com first locked the domain, why didn't he seek an American court order to force web.com to transfer the domain to a friendly registrar?