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Troll-cybersquatters fined 32 thousand dollars
Recently, the court in Brooklyn decided fined $ 32, 000 Taykvoka Young - American cybersquatters who register domains with the name of a famous businessman Donald Trump and poured it flows hatred.
The first four domains - trumpindia.com, trumpabudhabi.com, trumbeijing.com and trumpmumbai.com - Jung registered in 2007, when he learned that Donald Trump began commercial operations in Asia. Cybersquatters continuously berated on their websites of Donald Trump and his reality show «The Apprentice» («Candidate»).
For example, in 2011 it posted on its website an article entitled "The catastrophic drop in the rating of the show" The Apprentice ", in which he rudely spoke of recent seasons telecast.
After that irritated millionaire offered to sell him to Jung these sites for $ 400. But this was not enough cybersquatters, and he offered a much higher price (the exact number is unknown). Retaliatory move Donald Trump became submission of an application to the court in which he demanded to compensate the damage to his reputation, the amount of 400 thousand dollars.
Having considered the case the court decided to transfer the rights to the domain Donald Trump, and cybersquatters fined $ 32, 000. The amount of compensation, which has requested the plaintiff had to be reduced due to the insolvency of the defendant: his account was only $ 250.
Note also that for "the lowest of all the petty and cybersquatters," as attorney Trump, this is not the first case. Several years ago, Jung, learning about the merger of financial giants Merrill Lynch and Bank of America, registered the domain mlbofa.com and posted it on negative information about the companies. Thus cybersquatters trying to force them to pay for the domain of a few million dollars, but, of course, was defeated: the domain he also selected through the courts.
Source: habrahabr.ru/company/webnames/blog/214465/
The first four domains - trumpindia.com, trumpabudhabi.com, trumbeijing.com and trumpmumbai.com - Jung registered in 2007, when he learned that Donald Trump began commercial operations in Asia. Cybersquatters continuously berated on their websites of Donald Trump and his reality show «The Apprentice» («Candidate»).
For example, in 2011 it posted on its website an article entitled "The catastrophic drop in the rating of the show" The Apprentice ", in which he rudely spoke of recent seasons telecast.
After that irritated millionaire offered to sell him to Jung these sites for $ 400. But this was not enough cybersquatters, and he offered a much higher price (the exact number is unknown). Retaliatory move Donald Trump became submission of an application to the court in which he demanded to compensate the damage to his reputation, the amount of 400 thousand dollars.
Having considered the case the court decided to transfer the rights to the domain Donald Trump, and cybersquatters fined $ 32, 000. The amount of compensation, which has requested the plaintiff had to be reduced due to the insolvency of the defendant: his account was only $ 250.
Note also that for "the lowest of all the petty and cybersquatters," as attorney Trump, this is not the first case. Several years ago, Jung, learning about the merger of financial giants Merrill Lynch and Bank of America, registered the domain mlbofa.com and posted it on negative information about the companies. Thus cybersquatters trying to force them to pay for the domain of a few million dollars, but, of course, was defeated: the domain he also selected through the courts.
Source: habrahabr.ru/company/webnames/blog/214465/