Cybersquatting Lawsuit Against Repeat Offenders — Kohler Files

Following paying off cybersquatters, Kohler states it got burned.

Plumbing fixtures giant Kohler has filed an anticybersquatting lawsuit against a firm that it had by now paid to stop registering its trademarks as domain names.

The federal district suit was filed against DomainJet, Inc, Jack Sun, and one or more of the firm’s employees.

As stated by Kohler, it approached the defendants following it noticed they registered Kohlerco.in. The defendants demanded $1,000 to transfer the domain name. Kohler offered $500 for the domain if the defendants would not register any Kohler trademarks in the future.

The defendants apparently agreed and Kohler paid the money.

But shortly thereafter the defendants allegedly registered four more infringing domain names and demanded $1,000 to transfer the fresh domain names.

That’s what prompted Kohler to file the suit. Honestly, I can’t blame them.

Now Kohler is asking for $100,000 per infringing domain name, or $500,000 total.