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Filing a Domain Name Dispute?
0backlash0 writes "I work for a not-for-profit that's involved in community media especially radio, television, and increasingly, the internet. We exist by and for the community, which is to say that we're not a large organization. Someone has registered a domain name that we used to own: kdhxfm88.org The name appears to be registered in "bad faith". Because of our size, we can't exactly afford to hire a team of lawyers to take care of this for us. What can we do and how do we do it?"
Tried typing in the URL that's listed in the article? It takes you to Euro Teen Sluts. FSeeing as it used to belong to a not-for-profit community organization, I'd say that's bad faith. That is of course, if the person who registered it knew the organization that used to own it, and registered it in full knowledge that people would still go to it looking for their former page. Now, if the person didn't know much about the organization, but just knew that a domain name had been allowed to lapse and then grabbed in hopes of getting the people who were planning on going to it, again, I'd call it bad faith, but well... usual disclaimer applies (IANAL)
On the other hand, if they just happened to register the doomain and had no idea it was taken before and didn't know about the organization, well, it could point to just about anything, and wouldn't be in bad faith.
"I won't mod you down - I feel the need to call you a twit explicitly, rather than by implication."
Another slut site to check out:
http://goatse.cx
Disclaimer: This comment is for my satisfaction only.