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Namecheap sued a YC founder personally after shutting down her startup's domain

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As with most of these stories, the defendant presents only half the story. The other half which you can see in the comments is that the defendant lost a trademark infringement suit in India. So the court has ordered Namecheap.com to block their domain in India. Namecheap gave them an opportunity to geofence their domain so that their domain is resolvable everywhere except in India. The defendant failed to comply. So Namecheap.com did a blanket block.

Then there's also the thing that the DNS record for their company points to this individual (not the company). So then this individual gets the lawsuit. I wouldn't be sure that Namecheap is at fault here.

To read the other half of the story -

https://nitter.net/loganflatt/status/2014805148611076530#m

> Basically, you need to rebrand due to trademark infringement but you haven't done it.

https://nitter.net/pkj__m/status/2014888969989980167#m

> courts are asking you to stop serving thejuggernaut.com for people located in India. And I am able to open it just fine while sitting in Delhi... Is there some context missing here? Seems more like a case of compliance than bullying.

https://nitter.net/pkj__m/status/2014896455002255705#m

> arent these things you should take up with the court and get them to rule in your favor? End of the day the court ordered geoblock in India and that's all that matters

https://nitter.net/namecheapceo123/status/201489917915212236...

> Shameless lies by her. Read 22.

> 22. Defendant No. 4 - NameCheap, Inc. is directed to disclose the details of the Registrant of the Defendants' domain name and is directed to block the domain name 'www.thejuggernaut.com' till the next date.

I am all for outrage against big corporates but what do we expect from Namecheap here? Do we want Namecheap to defy a direct court order?

What should Namecheap do when a court in Iran wants content blocked?

I don't know man. I'm not very good with whataboutism. I don't trust myself answering such profound questions. I can answer X but the next moment I can poke holes at my answer X. Then I answer NOT X and then two minutes later I can poke holes at NOT X too.

I just shared the relevant threads I could find in my previous comment. Hoping it would throw more light on the situation. If you have an opinion about what Namecheap should do in these cases, do enlighten us!

It doesn't seem like the DNS provider here did anything wrong (I had to read through a bunch of extra context and read through the lines, since the founder's series of tweets contained some interesting wiggle statements.

Alternative frontends:

https://xcancel.com/snigdhasur/status/2014747997943238791

https://nitter.poast.org/snigdhasur/status/20147479979432387...

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