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A French-born American has now sued his home country because, he claims, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has illegally seized a domain that he’s owned since 1994: France.com.
In the mid-1990s, Jean-Noël Frydman bought France.com from Web.com and set up a website to serve as a "digital kiosk" for Francophiles and Francophones in the United States.
For over 20 years, Frydman built up a business (also known as France.com)
Sources:Finally, on March 12, 2018, Web.com abruptly transferred ownership of the domain to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The company did so without any formal notification to Frydman and no compensation.
"I'm probably [one of Web.com's] oldest customers," Frydman told Ars.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy...com-from-man-whos-had-it-since-94-so-he-sues/
I also seen this on 1st page of Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/8frmzc/france_seizes_francecom_from_man_whos_had_it/
EDIT: I see people wondering who's crazy to use web.com/NetworkSolutions, this should answer your question:
https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/networksolutions.com#trafficstats
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