Zuccarini
Office Depot Inc. v. Zuccarini
Opinion
Opinion
I. Background
In December 2000, Office Depot obtained a judgment against Zuccarini under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act of 1999 (“ACPA”), 15 U.S.C. § 1125(d), aris- ing out of Zuccarini’s registration of the domain name “offic- depot.com.” Office Depot was unable to collect on the judgment and eventually assigned the judgment to DSH.
DSH sought to levy upon some of the other domain names owned by Zuccarini. DSH registered the judgment in the dis- trict court for the Northern District of California. DSH then obtained a preservation order from the district court and engaged in discovery. It learned that Zuccarini owned more than 248 domain names registered with VeriSign, of which more than 190 were “.com” domain names. DSH targeted the “.com” domain names in its levy.
Some background information on the structure of the domain name system will be helpful to the reader:
Every computer connected to the Internet has a unique Internet Protocol (“IP”) address. IP addresses are long strings of numbers, such as 64.233.161.147. The Internet [domain name system] provides an alphanumeric shorthand for IP addresses. The hierar- chy of each domain name is divided by…