Domain Name Registrars are Intermediaries under Information Technology Act

Snapdeal Private Limited Vs Godaddycom LLC (Delhi High Court) Conclusion: Domain Name Registrars (DNRs), by the application of the algorithm derived by whom the infringing domain names were becoming available to prospective registrants, would themselves be ‘infringers’, within the meaning of Section 29 of the Trade Marks Act, and liable in that regard. In order to avoid such liability, the DNRs would either have to modulate their algorithms in such a way as not to make available, to prospective registrants, potentially infringing alternatives or avoid providing alternative domain n...