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Lawsuit filed over $100k domain name 1001.com — Stolen domain

Lawsuit filed over $100k domain name 1001.com — Stolen domain

Firm that bought domain name for $100,000 in 2013 states that it has been stolen.

Picture of thief at laptop computer

Netherlands corporation Diginus BV has filed an in rem lawsuit (pdf) against the domain name 1001.com, which it alleges was stolen from it.

The firm paid $100,000 to acquire the domain name on Sedo in 2013, as stated by NameBio.

Based on historical Whois records, it appears that the alleged theft occurred in May this year. That’s when the Whois record changed from Namecheap Whois privacy to GoDaddy’s DomainsByProxy.

DomainsByProxy was subsequently removed to reveal a registrant in China.

Diginus filed the lawsuit in U.S. Federal District Court in the Eastern District of Virginia, where .com registry Verisign is located.

David Weslow of Wiley Rein is representing Diginus.

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