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WIPO Panel Says Ron Paul Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking

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."

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  1. Re:For free? by Anonymous Coward · · 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!

  2. Free market! by daniel.garcia.romero · · Score: 5, Funny

    Free market will fix that! There's always www.ronpaul.bs or www.ronpaul.museum available.

  3. Apparently schadenfreude.com is avilable. by conspirator23 · · Score: 4, Funny

    So is cognitivedissonance.com. Both seem so much more... appropriate now.

  4. Re:For free? by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 4, Funny

    Who's to say the two domains were even owned by the same people?

    The linked article.