Silverstein v. E360INSIGHT, LLC

1 Citing case

  1. DLORAH, INC. v. NAU HOLDINGS, LLC

    CIV. 08-5091-RHB (D.S.D. Apr. 23, 2009)   Cited 2 times
    Declining to impute jurisdictional contacts based on conclusory allegations of successor liability

    In Express Media Group, LLC v. Express Corp., 2007 WL 1394163 at *4 (N.D. Cal. 2007), a California district court stated that WHOIS records "are not the equivalent of statutorily-created title systems" but rather are "privately-maintained systems for providing contact information and keeping records for domain names." See also Atlas Copco AB v. Atlascopcoiran.com, 533 F.Supp.2d 610, 613, n. 1 (E.D. Va 2008) (holding that a party other than that listed in the WHOIS record was owner of the domain name); Silverstein v. E360Insight, LLC, 2008 WL 1995217 at *12, n. 3 (C.D. Cal 2008) (stating that WHOIS information refers to the registrant's contact information). Defendants explain that the WHOIS record identifies Horny Toad as the registrant and contact for the nau.com domain because Jeremy Mew of Horny Toad performs computer support for both Horny Toad and Nau Holdings. The Court finds this to be a reasonable explanation.