Dot SR claims that due to Telesur’s actions it was unable to invest in the project and generate greater revenue. *Photo credit: eltaburete.files.wordpress.com
PARAMARIBO, Suriname, CMC – A United States-based company is claiming US$100 million in damages in a lawsuit filed against Suriname’s national telephone company, Telesur.
Dot SR Inc, a company registered in Floriday, has named Telesur and three of its officials in the suit for “breach of contract, defamation and tortuous interference with business relationships”.
The company claims that within 90 days of execution of the 2001 agreement signed between Telesur and Dot SR, Telesur and its officials including chief executive officer Dirk Currie, violated the contract by purposely not fulfilling their contractual obligations.
Under the deal, Telesur granted Dot SR the exclusive rights to market and sell internet addresses with “.sr” extensions to individuals and entities throughout the world with the exception of Suriname.
All Suriname entities were entitled to register their legally registered business name directly under “.sr” through Telesur by paying the registration fee to Telesur.
According to Dot SR, it fulfilled its obligations by developing the registration site www.register.sr and installing the necessary network and databases within 30 days of execution of the agreement with the national telephone company.
It alleged that Telesur and its representatives, without notice or permission, moved Dot SR registry property and other virtual information to servers and computers installed on Telesur’s premises.
The final breach of contract, according to the plaintiff occurred in August of 2009 when Telesur and its three representatives seized control of www.register.sr and opened its own registration site on November 4, 2009 using the same registration domain.
Dot SR claims that due to Telesur’s actions it was unable to invest in the project and generate greater revenue.
“As a direct and proximate result of Telesur’s breaches of the Agreement, Dot SR has suffered damages, including lost profits estimated to be as much as One Hundred Million ($100,000,000.00) Dollars over the life of the Agreement”, the plaintiff state in the filed court documents.
Efforts seeking a comment from Telesur’s CEO, Dirk Currie, proofed futile.
