[jacurtis]

Sort of. But not this lawsuit.

Facebook is suing Namecheap because Namecheap is not handing over the information just because Facebook asked them to. Facebook decided that the domain should be taken down and expected Namecheap to just do what Facebook said. Namecheap refused. That is why Facebook is suing them.

What Facebook should do is file a trademark dispute against the domain owner. Then a judge will look at the case, decide if Facebook has been wronged, and if so, the judge will ask Namecheap for the domain owner's information, at which point Namecheap would then be expected to (and not wrong for doing so) hand over the information to the judge. The court system will handle the rest. That is why we have these court systems. I know Facebook is confused and thinks they are above the government, but that is why it is good for Namecheap to remind them of that.

[Tarean]

Traditionally site owners are either public or can be requested in a 7 day span by showing clear harm.

Otherwise the liability falls to Namecheap. Presumably Facebooks motivation for actually suing is to prevent name registrar's from protecting obvious scammers for profit.

Not sure how I feel about this, site owners who act in good faith clearly should be able to stay private. On the other hand, scammers can open sites much more quickly than they can be reasonably be sued. Most businesses try to keep scammers from obtaining similar domains, having to sue each time to take a page down could make this infeasible for smaller ones.

[zymhan]

They don't know the owner though, because Namecheap won't tell them, presumably without FB obtaining a court order in some way.

[jethro_tell]

The court order is that a judge rules there has been trademark infringement and asks namecheap to take it down. If facebook would like to pursue suing for infringement then, they get another injunction with a court order, and the judge asks namecheap for the name associated with the infringement.