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Federal Court Awards Manwin 5 Domains & $100K In Damages

March 15, 2013 by Michael Berkens

According to xBiz.com Manwin was awarded $100,000 in statutory damages under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act by the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles

The defendant Georgia resident Nicholas Bulgin, was accused of cybersquatting and extorting the adult entertainment conglomerate.

The domains at issue were Manwin.net, Manwin.co, Manwin.us, ManwinSucks.com, and Brazzers.us

The federal court also granted Manwin’s motions to restrain Bulgin from creating domain names, Twitter accounts or Blogspot pages that use the company’s trademarks.

 

Manwin was also awarded $5,60 in attorney fees by the court.

Manwin owns and operates some of the most visited adult sites on the internet including YouPorn.com and Brazzers.com

 

 

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About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

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Comments

  1. BrianWick says

    March 15, 2013 at 10:45 pm

    Who runs this blog ?
    http://manwinfreespeechthreat.blogspot.com/

    $5,60 legal fees – how much should this be ?

  2. sak says

    March 15, 2013 at 11:12 pm

    Manwin was in the news a lot today. FOX News ran a story about Manwin all day today. It was about Fortress Investment Group, the Wall Street investment group that invested $167 million in Manwin and how heavily involved Wall Street is in the pirating of adult content.

  3. Michael Berkens says

    March 16, 2013 at 9:17 am

    Sak

    That has been the speculation of some in the adult industry

    http://www.mikesouth.com/mike-south-commentary/is-fortress-investment-group-the-source-of-manwins-money-7174/

  4. Michael Berkens says

    March 16, 2013 at 9:25 am

    Brian

    Mawin was actually pushing for $400K in damages and higher fees

    The judge approved this lower amount, actual fees were higher

  5. sak says

    March 16, 2013 at 12:18 pm

    @Michael

    You really ought to expand your resources. The Industry has known this for two years. Gossip Bloggers and outsiders have speculated.

  6. Michael Berkens says

    March 16, 2013 at 12:22 pm

    “”The Industry has known this for two years””

    know about the court ruling yesterday?

  7. sak says

    March 16, 2013 at 2:11 pm

    Of course not. I was referring to the blogpost to which you linked. Obviously I was not claiming prophetic ability. You linked to an individual who, until very recently, claimed that Manwin was owned by the Russian Mafia. I was simply questioning the quality of your sources.

  8. Michael Berkens says

    March 16, 2013 at 2:17 pm

    Well my post was not about Manwin financing it was about a court case, someone commented that they saw a story on fox news yesterday about manwin and Fortress Investment Group, i just said this has been speculated about before


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