Legal Opinion
VeriSign, Inc. v. XYZ.COM LLC
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided February 8, 2017No. 15-2526PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PAMELA HARRIS, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiff Verisign, Inc. is in the business of selling internet domain names and operates the popular .com and .net top-level domains. In 2014, a competitor arrived on the scene: Defendant XYZ.COM, LLC (“XYZ”) launched “.xyz,” a new top-level domain, and began registering domain names ending in .xyz. As part of its marketing push, XYZ, along with its CEO Daniel Negari, made a series of statements touting the popularity of the .xyz domain and warning of a scarcity of desirable .com domain names. Verisign sued XYZ and Negari, alleging that those statements violated…
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