WIPO Panel Says Ron Paul Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking 303
An anonymous reader writes "Ron Paul lost his two cybersquatting complaints against RonPaul.com and RonPaul.org. In the case of RonPaul.org, Paul was been found guilty of 'reverse domain name hijacking'. A reverse domain name hijacking finding means that the arbitration panel believes the case was filed in bad faith, resulting in the abuse of the administrative process. The panel ruled this way since Paul filed the case after the owner of RonPaul.org had already offered to give him the domain for free. The panel also ruled against Paul for the RonPaul.com domain name."
may I lol? (Score:3, Funny)
I may lol.
Re:For free? (Score:5, Funny)
A politician that doesn't follow the same set of rules that they claim everyone else should have to follow? Un-possible!
Free market! (Score:5, Funny)
Apparently schadenfreude.com is avilable. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:For free? (Score:5, Funny)
Who's to say the two domains were even owned by the same people?
The linked article.
Off topic nerd porn (Score:4, Funny)
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Once upon a time long ago I was intrigued by the rapid absorption of domain names and their escalating value. Particularly short names. And so I wrote a perl script to permute all possible 4-letter domains and look them up in the hope of identifying some interesting names to squat. I'm not really proud of that, but it was long ago when such stuff wasn't as abhorrent as the current day. I was sipping Maker's Mark on the rocks all night. I identified and registered a few, and one came up - iran.com, which could have been lucrative with the runner community. I was placing the order for the iran.com domain on Christmas eve when just then my wife came up, stroked my neck and said "come to bed." I got some. That was the most expensive nookie I ever got.