ALEXANDRIA, Va. — According to a report on www.xbiz.com, operators of RedTube.com have been given tentative approval by U.S. District Judge John Anderson to direct an Internet service provider to transfer registration for dating site RedTubes.us to its parent company, Bright Imperial Ltd.

Anderson earlier this month gave RedTubes.us operators Shadi Barakat and Milia Abi Azar two weeks to respond to his proposed recommendations after they failed to appear in an Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act suit. Anderson has yet to officially sign over the domain to Bright Imperial.

Bright Imperial claims that RedTube.us has been in operation for more than a year and that its operators are using a domain name too similar to theirs, which include about 120 similar domains that employ the words “red” and “tube.”

The suit, filed at U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., also targets Flowers Lebanon Delivery — which marketed the dating site RedTubes.us, now inoperable. At its height, RedTubes.us was drawing nearly 8,000 visits a day.