Domain takeover: If you wear old loads, you remain visible on the net!

Domain takeover: If you wear old loads, you remain visible on the net!

Fulda, Deutschland - The Fulda Regional Court ruled in a pioneering judgment that companies that take over the Internet domain of a former business owner must also maintain its negative ratings. The plaintiff, which specializes in the construction of winter gardens, acquired the domain "n reported.

The judges argued that the plaintiff actually continued the business operations of the insolvent company. Based on this continuity of content, it is obvious to the users of the evaluation platform that earlier reviews are referring to the old operator. The defendant who operates the platform was not obliged to be responsible for the content of the users as long as there were no obvious violations of the law. The court found that the plaintiff must also be responsible for the digital reputation after taking over a domain that was already affected with a negative image, so