Facebook filed a lawsuit in Arizona this week against domain name registrar Namecheap and its Whoisguard proxy service for registering deceptive domain names that were similar to those of the social network’s services.
Director and associate general counsel, intellectual property litigation Christen Dubois said in a Newsroom post that Whoisguard registered 45 such domain names, including instagrambusinesshelp.com, facebo0k-login.com and whatsappdownload.site.
She added that notices were sent to Whoisguard between October 2018 and February 2020, and the company declined to cooperate.
Namecheap CEO Richard Kirkendall said in an email, “Namecheap takes every fraud and abuse allegation extremely seriously and diligently investigates each reported case of abuse.
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