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		jfengel on March 5, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Facebook sues Namecheap Isn't "getting a subpoena" basically what they're doing?

gpm on March 6, 2020 [–]

I think normally they would sue the people who registered the domain to get a subpoena, not namecheap itself.

jfengel on March 6, 2020 | [–]

I thought the point was that they're suing namecheap to get the names of the people who registered the domain, because namecheap was serving as an anonymity service.

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