Nominet awarded AUD $1.3 million copyright damages Australian court case closes on domain name scammers.

M2 Presswire, January, 2006

M2 PRESSWIRE-3 January 2006-NOMINET: Nominet awarded AUD $1.3 million copyright damages Australian court case closes on domain name scammers(C)1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:03012006 Nominet, the .uk Internet domain name registry, today announced that the Federal Court of Australia has awarded AUD $1.3 million (GBP550,000) in damages to conclude the battle against Chesley Rafferty and Bradley Norrish, and 3 of their companies, who were found liable for copyright infringement and breaches of Australian fair trade laws by copying data from Nominet's WHOIS service, and issuing misleading domain name registration notices.

The judgment of Justice French in the Federal Court of Australia underlines the value of Nominet's .uk Register and copyright...