Pinterest Wins $7.2M and Injunction Against Cybersquatter

http://allthingsd.com/20130930/pinterest-wins-7-2m-and-injunction-against-cybersquatter/

by khadim • 13 years ago

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huhtenberg• 13 years ago

A San Francisco judge awarded Pinterest $7.2 million in damages and legal fees ... against Qian Jin, a Chinese cybersquatter

Uhm... so that's a US judge awarding damages against a Chinese person. What does this translates to practically speaking? This guy won't be able to enter the US. What else? Will it be up to the domain registrar to comply with the US court decision? What if the registrar is not US-based?

icebraining• 13 years ago

They're .com addresses, supposedly the court can get Verisign to pull them.

http://blog.easydns.org/2012/02/29/verisign-seizes-com-domai...

mahranch• 13 years ago

It says "Order granting default judgement", does that mean that the guy didn't show up or have an attorney present to represent him? That sounds like he didn't try fighting the suit and Pinterest won by default (same thing happens civil suits when the defendant pulls a no-show).

tikhonj• 13 years ago

Exactly. From the article: "since the defendant didn’t even respond to the complaint, it’s not exactly clear whether he will pay up."

So not only is this a default judgement, but the $7.2 million will probably never materialize because the defendant is in China. However, I'm guessing that Pinterest will get control over the domains (which, to them, is probably more important) because the registrars are US-based.

md2be• 13 years ago

Motion to vacate default judgement is a possibility. Cybersquatting? This guy has a gambling site?

Honigdachs• 13 years ago

Seems like the defendant is just a "shell company". Qian Jin in Chinese is 金钱, or gold.

mil4n• 13 years ago

there you go... Who owns The Switch?

Pinterest Wins $7.2M and Injunction Against Cybersquatter

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