It's almost textbook bullying. According to the attached pdfs, Kneen has only sold 2 domains in the last 11 years. He'd have to be a really shitty cybersquatter to pull off those numbers.

The key take away is the part of the plaintiff's filing that seems to want to redefine 'register' to include 'renew'.

Which is going to look ridiculous as soon as it hits court, because there's clear precedent for the standard meaning - sixteen years of it.

Team Harsh are probably hoping for an internet-ignorant judge. I wouldn't want to bet on their likely success with that gambit.

That's going to be an interesting conversation.

"Mr.Mehta when was your business started?"

"2003".

"And when was the domain in question registered."

".... uh, 1999".

"Are you sure you want to proceed?".

Most of the problem is that he'll have to go into a foreign court just to keep a domain he had for ages.

I agree with you. The best part of the article was the two legal documents. Fascinating stuff and good to know about.