The Golden Nugget casinos in Southern Nevada are suing another website operator, charging cybersquatting and trademark infringement.
GNLV Corp., owner of the hotel-casinos in Las Vegas and Laughlin, filed suit Friday in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas against Kanter Associates SA.
The suit says Kanter does business in Panama and runs a website called thegoldennuggett.com, which appears to be intentionally misspelled with an extra "t."
This website links to travel and reservation services involving the Golden Nuggets, other gaming properties and airlines.
"Defendant has registered, trafficked in and/or used a domain name that is identical or confusingly similar to and/or dilutive of plaintiff’s trademarks," the lawsuit alleges.
Kanter officials couldn’t immediately be located for comment.
This suit follows an April 27 lawsuit in the same court against the operator of the www.golddennugget.com site, also allegedly deliberately misspelled with an extra "d."
The Nevada Golden Nuggets are represented in the lawsuits by attorneys with the Las Vegas office of the law firm Greenberg Traurig LLP.