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Transamerica to Enter Mediation — Moniker and

Transamerica to Enter Mediation — Moniker and

Lawsuit heads to mediation.

TransamericaMoniker and Transamerica will enter into mediation to try to resolve their legal battle.

Transamerica sued Moniker, claiming that Moniker owned domain names that infringed Transamerica’s trademarks and set up fictitious entities to hide its ownership. Transamerica later amended the complaint to suggest that Moniker didn’t own the domain names, but enabled the real owners hide their identity.

A few days back Moniker filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, citing that the complaint only applies to registrants of the offending domain names. It stated there is no cause in the complaint that ought to apply to Moniker, Moniker Privacy Services, or Oversee.net.

Following filing the motion to dismiss, the two parties agreed to enter into mediation to try to settle the issue. The mediation is scheduled to take place December 2, 2009 in Miami.

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