A US appeals court has ruled that domain registration companies can be held responsible for wrongly transferring domain ownership in the case of Eysoldt v GoDaddy.
In this particular case, Jeff Eysoldts had registered a number of websites and email addresses under one Go Daddy account, including the doman myrejuvenate.com, as part of a deal between him and Proscan Rejuvenate Aesthetic Laser Centres.
When the deal between the two was terminuated, Proscan's owner Ruth Wallace phoned GoDaddy and claimed ownership of the myrejuvenate.com domain name. GoDaddy helped the owner take control over Jeff's GoDaddy account. That included all his personal domains and email accounts too. When Wallace discovered that Jeff and his family's websites and email accounts were included in the account that GoDaddy transferred to her, she sent an email back to GoDaddy requesting they transfer everything but the myrejuvenate.com domain back to Jeff. But that email was ignored.
The judge was quoted as saying
Shocking!!!Much about Go Daddy's conduct causes us concern, particularly (GoDaddy's) inaction when Wallace emailed him and asked him to return to Jeff everything in the account but Myrejunenate.com.
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