The previous owner of the Paint.net domain erred in hosting information regarding Paint.NET, which was evidently misleading enough to win dotPDN LLC a domain squatting suit.
The ones who had displayed a link to getpaint.net was a legitimate paint company.
Some time after 2012, the domain name was acquired by another entity (associated with a "domain investor"), which allegedly turned the website into an imitation of getpaint.net in 2025, allowing the developer to file a successful lawsuit based on trademark infringement.
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