Facebook, Inc. v. OnLineNic Inc

BACKGROUND

19 The SAC alleges defendant OnlineNIC, a California corporation with its principal place of 20 business in San Leandro, California, is a domain name registrar that sells, registers and transfers 21 domain names for third parties. Dkt. No. 109 ¶ 9 (SAC). 22 The SAC alleges defendant ID Shield, is a Hong Kong, China, limited company that provides 23 a type of domain name privacy service, specifically a proxy service, for OnlineNIC’s customers. 24 Id. ¶ at 10. ID Shield registers domain names, as the registrant, and licenses these domain names to 25 OnlineNIC’s customers. Id. 26 The SAC alleges defendant 35.CN. is a corporation registered under the laws of Xiamen, 27 Fujian Province, that sells, registers and transfers domain names for third parties. Id. ¶ 11. The SAC alleges 35.CN controls, manages, and runs the operations of OnlineNIC and ID Shield. Id. The SAC alleges plaintiffs, well known social networking sites Facebook and Instagram, own various well-established trademarks. Id. ¶ 18-25. Plaintiffs allege defendants, as registrants and as alter egos of each other, have registered domain names (such as hackingfacebook.net) that have…