I work for a company that shall remain nameless for now. Disclaimer: these are my own opinions and do not necessarily reflect that of the company or its employees.
Just as a note this is actually something that the company does on a daily basis. We are agents for famous sports and entertainment personalities. If we, for example, represented a famous person called Bill Gates, and www.billgates.com was already registered (also.net and.org) then we would take the owners to court and require that they transfer the domain name to us. I'm not familiar with the law of how/why we can do that, but it's similar to the law that stops people from putting Bill Gates' name on their product to try and sell it better - Intellectual rights I believe it's called.
However, in this case, I'd think that you have a pretty strong case. Purdue would need to establish that they have a vested interest in the site, which IMHO they don't. Good luck.
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I work for a company that shall remain nameless for now. Disclaimer: these are my own opinions and do not necessarily reflect that of the company or its employees.
.net and .org) then we would take the owners to court and require that they transfer the domain name to us. I'm not familiar with the law of how/why we can do that, but it's similar to the law that stops people from putting Bill Gates' name on their product to try and sell it better - Intellectual rights I believe it's called.
Just as a note this is actually something that the company does on a daily basis. We are agents for famous sports and entertainment personalities. If we, for example, represented a famous person called Bill Gates, and www.billgates.com was already registered (also
However, in this case, I'd think that you have a pretty strong case. Purdue would need to establish that they have a vested interest in the site, which IMHO they don't. Good luck.