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Firm sues to recover JPE.com — Private equity

Firm states domain name was stolen following email was compromised.

Jacobs Private Equity, LLC has filed a lawsuit (pdf) to recover the domain name JPE.com, which it states is stolen.

The firm, lead by Bradley Jacobs, alleges that the JPE.com domain name was stolen from it following one of its representative’s email accounts was hacked. The perpetrator used the email account to get login credentials at Network Solutions and subsequently transferred the domain name to Dynadot at the beginning of September.

The current whois record for JPE.com shows an individual in Phoenix, but the plaintiffs say the information is bogus. Thus, they filed the suit in rem versus the domain name. It was filed in U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Virginia, where .com registry Verisign is located.

JPE.com does not right now resolve.

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