Binance domain name dispute

bartosimpsonio said:

He needs a good crypto and domain lawyer, some folks are offering on the comments.

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I hope he does get the help he needs.

Project Limitless said:

Binance may end up winning. But I'm rooting for the guy to win and retain ownership or get paid what he deserves.

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He doesn't deserve anything but neither do they. If they want the domain they need to pay him what he requests

Any reasonable person should understand that this Twitter guy is not the good guy here. The domain is Binance.ca, using a Canadian domain extension, and then this guy complains that CZ is suing him in a Canadian court. Absolutely ridiculous. It seems pretty clear this guy is cybersquatting. It wasn't registered until October 2017, Binance.com was registered in April 2017. He is playing everyone.

Based on his own comments, he has a bigger problem, in that he likely lied on the domain registration.

This is a .ca domain. If he is not a Canadian resident (he states he is in the U.S.), and he is not a Canadian citizen (appears unlikely, as even a Canadian felon should be allowed into Canada), then he probably did not meet the requirements to own a .ca domain.

I have not done a .ca reg recently, but my recollection is that you need to positively indicate that you meet the terms and conditions of a .ca registrant. If he indicated yes to this, but this is not true, then that makes a strong case that he falsified registration details.

If evidence of this is presented to CIRA, the domain authority, and the registration will likely be rescinded.

His safest route was to accept the initial offer. Any digging into the details was never going to end well.

Cryptodd said:

Based on his own comments, he has a bigger problem, in that he likely lied on the domain registration.

This is a .ca domain. If he is not a Canadian resident (he states he is in the U.S.), and he is not a Canadian citizen (appears unlikely, as even a Canadian felon should be allowed into Canada), then he probably did not meet the requirements to own a .ca domain.

I have not done a .ca reg recently, but my recollection is that you need to positively indicate that you meet the terms and conditions of a .ca registrant. If he indicated yes to this, but this is not true, then that makes a strong case that he falsified registration details.

If evidence of this is presented to CIRA, the domain authority, and the registration will likely be rescinded.

His safest route was to accept the initial offer. Any digging into the details was never going to end well.

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Scary point.

I wonder how much they are spending on lawyers to make all this happen

Cryptodd said:

Based on his own comments, he has a bigger problem, in that he likely lied on the domain registration.

This is a .ca domain. If he is not a Canadian resident (he states he is in the U.S.), and he is not a Canadian citizen (appears unlikely, as even a Canadian felon should be allowed into Canada), then he probably did not meet the requirements to own a .ca domain.

I have not done a .ca reg recently, but my recollection is that you need to positively indicate that you meet the terms and conditions of a .ca registrant. If he indicated yes to this, but this is not true, then that makes a strong case that he falsified registration details.

If evidence of this is presented to CIRA, the domain authority, and the registration will likely be rescinded.

His safest route was to accept the initial offer. Any digging into the details was never going to end well.

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I just checked and yes, CIRA does still have requirements that the person registering the domain has a Canadian connection (usually this means they live in Canada, are a Canadian Citizen, or represent a corporation registered in Canada, etc. If he is just an American citizen who lives in the USA, probably he lied. And the reason why is clear, because he was planning to squat the domain.

He is going to lose that domain.

He had $6,500.00 in his pocket for a 10 dollar domain and got greedy.

Pigs Get Fat. Hogs get Slaughtered.

Loved the guy's explanation on twitter to justify why he bought binance.ca : "was going to be a porn site for my bisexual gf nance " haha just for this I hope he'll win.

He probably won't since binance has the $$$ to pay the best lawyers or corrupt the judges. Plus many other reasons like, the guy is not welcome in canada, binance existed before he registered the domain etc...

He should have built this porn website as soon as he registered the domain. That's what it is adviced when you choose to buy a domain for trademark squatting, building a website in a totally different niche is the best defense you can have.
But unfortunatly he just parked the domain, which won't do him good.

Anyway I think he still has a 10-20% chances to win the case, since back in time binance were not the monster they are now, and they didn't registered the TM (I know it's not mandatory, but still a chance)