Concluding week, Cointelegraph reported that KuCoin's master web domain, Kucoin.com, had been locked by a Singaporean court. In a statement posted on its website and in its public Telegram channel throughout the by week, KuCoin alleged that our reporting was "unverified" and "untrue." In response, Cointelegraph is at present publishing further evidence of its original reporting.

Authenticity of the email: Confirmed

In the original article, Cointelegraph contributor Andrew Capon published a screenshot of a GoDaddy email showing that the web domain registrar is complying with a court society issued by the High Court of Singapore. Cointelegraph has since obtained the original email file of the message sent by GoDaddy.

The email from GoDaddy to KuCoin, showing its domain locked by court order in Singapore

The email from GoDaddy to KuCoin, showing its domain locked by courtroom order in Singapore

Using the new file, we were able to authenticate the cryptographic signature in the email headers, proving that the e-mail we obtained did indeed come from the electronic mail address Courtdisputes@godaddy.com. GoDaddy definitively sent the email Cointelegraph reviewed to e-mail address admin@kucoin.com.

GoDaddy did not respond to a request for comment from Cointelegraph.

A domain lock is distinct from a domain block — kucoin.com is nonetheless accessible in Singapore. The significance of a domain lock is that the domain cannot be transferred, preventing the current owner from transferring control of the domain to some other entity.

The court guild: What we know and don't

Due to the particulars of the Singaporean court system, the full contents of the court order are not publicly available at present, nor is the original complaint in the instance. Even so, using Singapore's eLitigation database, Cointelegraph was able to verify the beingness of an "order of the court" issued past Justice Kannan Ramesh in case number HC/OS 342/2020 — the same example number referenced in the GoDaddy e-mail. That social club was issued on March 24, 2022 — six days before GoDaddy's email.

Singapore's eLitigation Database

Source: Singapore's eLitigation Database, Physician #HC/ORC 2156/2020

The defendants listed in that case are: MEK Global Limited, PhoenixFin Express, and PhoenixFin PTE Limited. Every bit Cointelegraph previously reported, these entities have been passing trademark rights for the Kucoin logo betwixt themselves for some time, though they share addresses — including Fortunate Icon, unnamed in the recent courtroom order.

Moreover, PhoenixFin PTE is the current owner of the Kucoin.com domain proper noun, per the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which lists that visitor's address as simply "Singapore, Singapore."

Neither KuCoin representatives nor any of these individual entities responded to requests for comment for this article.

According to the publicly available database, the plaintiff in the example against KuCoin is Convexity Limited. Documentation is limited, just a Gibraltar-based Convexity shares a name besides as the last iv digits of its identification number with the Convexity in the court order.

Cointelegraph reached out to Convexity, simply the firm did not reply by press time. An individual familiar with the thing told Cointelegraph that Convexity provided cyber-security services to KuCoin under a long-term contract.

KuCoin's legal trouble in the U.South.

Meanwhile, in the U.S., KuCoin was one of a armada of firms in the crypto space targeted by contempo class action lawsuits in New York'south Southern District.

To all appearances unrelated to the instance in Singapore, the suit in New York alleges securities violations in Kucoin's listing and promotion of a number of tokens during the initial coin offer frenzy of 2022-2018:

"KuCoin participated in illegal solicitations and sales of securities for which no registration statement was in result, and as to which no exemption from registration was available."