alt Hacker News> The idea that a state court in one particular state can enforce such an absurd law against a company that likely has no business operations or servers in the state is ridiculous.
Two things of note regarding this.
First, note the office of origin: Texas Attorney General, which is currently occupied by Ken Paxton who is running for a tightly contested seat in the US Senate.
Second, a state court does not have jurisdiction beyond its borders for entities not operating within same.
> .com in particular has also been well proven over the past 5 to 10 years to be vulnerable to federal court orders to seize domains at the registrar level. ... What's new is this is being done from the state court level.
Which is why any attempt to enforce this ruling would be subject to removal to Federal court.
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And third, there was a default judgement.
I wonder what was the value of the domain on the open market, its quite a famous domain and probably had high lead generation..
But I agree with the parent comment.
This is so much state overstepping bounds and irony aside, so much for independence and rights by a state that proclaims personal agency comes first.