Business Law Today, Comprehensive 10th Edition by Roger LeRoy Miller

Exercise 3

Domain names. Austin Rare Coins, Inc., buys and sells rare coins, bouillon, and other precious metals through eight Web sites with different domain names. An unknown individual took control of Austin's servers and transferred the domain names to another registrant without Austin's permission. This unknown individual began using these domain names to host malicious content-including hate letters to customers and fraudulent contact information-and to post customers' credit card numbers and other private information, tarnishing Austin's goodwill. Austin filed a lawsuit in a federal district court against the new registrant under the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act. Is Austin entitled to a transfer of the domain names Explain