From PC Mag: Facebook announced this week that it is suing the domain name registrar Namecheap for registering domain names "that aim to deceive people by pretending to be affiliated with Facebook apps."
Christen Dubois, Director and Associate General Counsel, IP Litigation at Facebook, explained that Namecheap's proxy service, called Whoisguard, "registered or used 45 domain names that impersonated Facebook and our services." Examples of the domains registered include instagrambusinesshelp.com, facebo0k-login.com, and whatsappdownload.site.
Facebook believes Namecheap has an obligation to share information about what it classes as "infringing domains." In other words, the social network wants Namecheap to provide customer details associated with the domains. Apparently notices were sent by Facebook to Namecheap over the last two years and the company "declined to cooperate," so legal action has now been taken.
Namecheap in response claims Facebook is "attempting to bypass legal protections and our own stringent customer protections." Namecheap doesn't share its customer details without a court-ordered subpeona, which Facebook has not obtained.
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