The owner of France.com has filed a lawsuit against France after the domain name, which he has used for over two decades, was expropriated.<\/p>\n
Jean-Noel Frydman, who was born in France and moved to New York in the eighties, registered the domain<\/strong><\/a> name France.com on 10 February 1994.<\/p>\n He launched the first website<\/strong><\/a> on the domain on 18 June 1995, and since then formed numerous partnerships – which included branches of the French government.<\/p>\n Frydman said the French government was aware of France.com\u2019s existence, and consistently encouraged and supported its initiatives and activities.<\/p>\n However, in April 2015, France launched a legal battle in France to expropriate the domain name.<\/p>\n France claimed that Frydman\u2019s company had registered the domain name in bad faith and had not been authorised by the state to use it.<\/p>\n \u201cThis assertion is not only groundless and absurd, it\u2019s entirely dishonest,\u201d said Frydman.<\/p>\n After a legal battle in France, France.com was transferred<\/strong><\/a> by its host Web.com to France\u2019s ministry of Foreign Affairs in March 2018.<\/p>\n Frydman is now fighting back and has filed a lawsuit<\/strong><\/a> against the ministry of foreign affairs and its minister.<\/p>\n Frydman aims to recover ownership of France.com, which he says he rightfully obtained.<\/p>\n The France.com domain currently redirects to the English version of the France.fr website.<\/p>\n The owner of France.com filed a lawsuit against France over the domain name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":258031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[3354,50377],"class_list":["post-258029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-france","tag-france-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258029"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258059,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258029\/revisions\/258059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0CIPC and ZADNA officially launch new domain registration system<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"