[TheDomains.com] The court ordered auction of the domain name RightHaven.com started today on Snapnames.com.As many of you are aware, RightHaven.com isn't just a ordinary domain name.
The story has been followed very closely by VegasInc.com which reported that Righthaven LLC, filed 275 lawsuits for copyright infringement seeking not only damages but the forfeiture of the domain name of the infringing site to them, RightHaven.
In one case they filed however, the defendant, was awarded costs of $63,720 against RightHaven. So this auction on SnapNames.com is to raise money to cover part of Righthaven's liability.
The defendant who beat Righthaven, Wayne Hoehn, has an attorney, Marc Randazza, who put up a blog post on the case on his blog today saying:
Randazza's blog and the referred to post is here
"Righthaven went after hundreds of defendants in copyright cases. Often, the defendants were innocent and engaged in fair use.
"In all cases where a court has been asked, they found that Righthaven had no right to bring the suit in the first place. In all of their cases, Righthaven asked the court to award them not only money, but the defendant's domain name.
"After losing a case to my client, Wayne Hoehn, Righthaven is at least $63,000 in debt to him.
"They refuse to pay. Now their domain name is up for auction to the highest bidder."