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by Tarean 2299 days ago
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.