Legal row over who owns France.com domain
The French government is being sued over the way it has sought to take over the France.com web domain.In 2015, France started legal action against Frenchman Jean-Noel Frydman, who had registered France.com in 1994.Two years later, a French court ruled in France's favour and the government began to lobby domain host web.com to take control away from Mr Frydman.And now Mr Frydman, who built a business around the domain, says France has "illegally" seized the site.He says France.com was taken away from him without warning in mid-March.And he has now begun legal action in Virginia in a bid to regain control of it.Mr Frydman is suing the French Republic, its Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Atout France tourist agency and domain registrar Verisign.He alleges the government did not ask to licens...