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On Thursday, social media giant Facebook, as well as its subsidiaries Instagram and WhatsApp (together referred to as Facebook), filed a complaint in the Middle District of Pennsylvania against defendant New Ventures Services, Corp. as well as some unknown individuals “as the agents of, and/or as the alter egos of New Ventures Services, Corp. (collectively, ‘NVSC’)” for the registration of at least 74 infringing domain names which the defendants purportedly profited from in bad faith.
According to the complaint, NVSC is “(s)eeking to take advantage of Plaintiffs’ goodwill and fame, and unwary internet users … (by) register(ing) at least 278 domain names that are identical or confusingly similar to Plaintiffs’ trademarks,” specifically the Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp trademarks. Facebook claimed that as of March 29, 2021, “NVSC owned at least 74 of these identical or confusingly similar domain names” (the Infringing Domain