To recover stolen three letter domain names — Lawsuit filed
Suit alleges 35 domain names were stolen from a GoDaddy account.
Acme Billing Firm filed a federal lawsuit (pdf) in U.S. District Court this stretch to recover 14 stolen domain names, counting 9 three letter domain names.
The suit alleges that an unknown person stole 35 domain names from Acme Billing Firm’s GoDaddy account. The firm became aware of the theft in early August and worked with GoDaddy to recover 21 of the domain names. It filed the suit in an effort to recover the other 14.
The suit claims violation of the Anticybersquatting Protection Act as well as the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The latter was probably added in since it will be difficult to show trademark rights for the short domain names, especially since whois records show many of them were only recently purchased by Acme.
The lawsuit states the domain names are being shopped around for sale. Here are the domains at issue:
AIJ.com, FJD.com, HBU.com, HIE.com, IIW.com, PWP.com, SJS.com, XJN.com, XPE.com, GY.net, 4213.com, 7417.com, 7204.com and 8674.com.
David Weslow of Wiley Rein LLP is representing the plaintiff.
