Judge brushes off Godaddy expired domain case
Godaddy was sued by Crisby Studio AB, a Swedish company, who earlier bought the domain name calor.com through godaddy expired domain auction. Godaddy returned the domain to its previous registrant after two months. On June 4, the company received a email: GoDaddy said the domain was auctioned in error. It was taking the domain back, refunding Crisby’s purchase price, plus giving it a $350 credit for the inconvenience. Crisby then sued Godaddy. Later, another plantiff Prime Loyalty also joined this legal case. Prime has purchased the domain butane.com in godaddy expired domains auction for $19K+ and Godaddy returned to the same registrant.
Lawsuit defence: GoDaddy argued that the legal suit suffered from two inoperable defects: (1) it did not allege the citizenship of the Plaintiff LLCs’ constituent members; and (2) because diversity jurisdiction is determined at the time of filing, adding Prime did not cure the initial lack of diversity. The U.S. district court judge agreed and dismissed the case without prejudice.
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