US Court Disconnects Canadian Domain Name Scammers

coondoggie writes "A US District Court today ordered a halt to the illegal practice of Canadian companies who the Federal Trade Commission said deceptively posed as domain name registrars and sent bogus bills to thousands of US small businesses and nonprofit organizations for their annual 'Website Address Listing.' The FTC said many of the businesses believed they would lose their Web site addresses unless they paid the bill, so they paid but in most cases the defendants did not provide domain registration services, did not provide the 'search optimization' services it claimed to provide, and bilked small businesses and nonprofits out of millions of dollars."

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When will they ever learn?

[Computershack]

"A US District Court today ordered a halt to the illegal practice of Canadian companies" Because a US court has jurisdiction in Canada doesn't it? Oh that's right, no it doesn't. So yet again another completely meaningless judgement which has no effect outside of the room it was made in.

Re:When will they ever learn?

[magarity]

What is likely is that the US courts operated faster than the Canadian courts with this issue
 
The Canadian courts need do nothing; by a runaway margin most slashdotters think the rulings of US courts should apply to everyone in the whole world.