INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Facebook has filed a lawsuit against the domain name registrar Namecheap over deceptive domains registered with the service.The social
networking giant claims that Namecheap refused to cooperate with its two-year investigation into a number of domains registered through its
service which impersonated the Facebook brand in an attempt to trick users of the social network.In a recent blog post, Director and
Associate General Counsel at Facebook, Christen Dubois explained that the company's engineers had managed to track down 45 suspicious
domains that impersonated Facebook and its services which were registered with Namecheap.However, the names, addresses, phone numbers and
emails of the people who registered these domains are protected by Namecheap's WhoisGuard service.Of the 45 suspicious domains, some of
the sample domains included instagrambusinesshelp.com, facebook-login.com and whatsappdownload.site
In addition to hurting Facebook's brand, these domains could easily be used by cybercriminals to launch phishing attacks or scams against
the company's users.In her blog post, Dubois explained that Facebook had tried repeatedly to obtain more information on the people who
obligation to provide information about these infringing domain names, they declined to cooperate
in which it explained that while it takes fraud and abuse allegation very seriously, the company's WhoIsGuard service is designed to
protect the privacy of its users.Facebook has taken similar action against domains which impersonated its brand in the past and last year,
the company sued OnlineNIC and its domain proxy service ID Shield.Via ZDNet
