It didn’t take long for the sharks to begin circling. It’s come to our attention that class action attorneys already smelling blood in the water have begun investigating the possibility of a class-action case against SnapNames.  Blim & Edelson, Chicago based class-action attorneys, have put up a website to gather up possible plaintiff names and investigate the case.

To be clear the site states :
The listing of a company is not meant to state or imply that it committed any illegal or improper act; rather only that an investigation is or was being conducted by private attorneys to determine whether legal rights have been violated.

Edelson has recently taken on Facebook, Match.com, Lycos, and a number of other internet companies.

The site further reads :

If you purchased a domain name through SnapNames since 2005, you may be entitled to recover money. Contact an attorney today!

Also, typical of the domainer crowd, both SnapNamesClassAction.com and OverseeClassAction.com have been registered.  Too bad Edelson doesn’t have an affiliate program.

Network Solutions just emailed notices regarding a class action settlment that came about from the NSI front running domains incident back in January 2008.   The email which can be seen after the jump details a class action lawsuit settlement which could cost the domain name registrar up to $1 million .  The complaint was originally filed against both NSI and ICANN by plaintiffs Chris McElroy, Todd Matzke and James Lee Finseth in  The US District Court for the Central District of California. The Court has approved the proposed settlement.  Anyone who has registered a domain at NSI between December 14  2007 and March 15 2008, may want to look in to this settlement.
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