Have You Been A Victim of Domain Hijacking?

**TheOfferor** · 03-12-2005, 08:11 PM

My name is Roger and I am writing an in depth report about the unfair aspects of Cybersquatting and Trademark laws that deprive legitimate ownership of domains because the complainant (HIJACKER) had the money to file a frivilous complaint but the owner of the domain did not have the funds to respond. WERE YOU A VICITIM OF THIS CRIME. Please PM me with your story if you are ok with me including it in my report.

This report may be published in a legal journal with heavy circulation. So if you have been a victim here is you chance to be heard.

Thanks in advance.

**Banned: Dark_One** · 03-12-2005, 10:53 PM

Fortunately, i haven't been a victim of Domain Hijacking

**Acro** · 03-13-2005, 01:35 AM

Frivolous lawsuits - that are identifiable as such - are thrown out by the presiding judge. Furthermore, this action is not considered a crime. If you intend to publish your essay in a legal journal you need to a) do some deep research b) maintain composure & objectivity versus making explosive remarks.

**TheOfferor** · 03-13-2005, 02:20 AM

Thanks for the educational pointers %+| . As for this being a crime, it may not be to you but it is to me.

If the judges threw all such frivilous cases out I would not be writing this essay in the first place. I have done more research on this topic then you can ever imagine.

**Dave Zan** · 03-15-2005, 01:12 PM

Well, good luck to you anyway. It'll be challenging enough keeping any bias to
a minimum and making it as informative as it possibly can be.

But I think you're actually referring to what's popularly referred to as "reverse
domain name hijacking" instead of just domain hijacking. Is that it?

**draqon** · 03-16-2005, 12:51 PM

as davezan1 said, there is quite a difference between domain hijacking and reverse hijacking. when someone stole my domain CASE.com and the morons at GoDaddy refused to return it or investigate, this was an example of domain hijacking. This was also an example of apathy and gross incompetence. However, had the thief filed a UDRP and attempted to claim the domain that way, without a legitimate right to the domain, that would be reverse domain hijacking.

**TheOfferor** · 03-16-2005, 02:01 PM

I wanted to give special thanks to all of you have are sharing your stories, comments, and criticism with me about my paper topic.

I am a law student graduating in May of 2005. I choose this topic as my final paper in law school because I have been in the Internet Industry for 10 years and have seen many unjust decisions regarding domain name ownership. I storngly beleive that both trademark and cybersquatting laws are flawed and need restructuring.

I wanted to open this topic here to see if there have been others who have unjustly been deprived of a domain name that was generic, or not worthy of protection (such as ACRONYMS). I have worked for several companies, some having lost very good 4 letter domain names to some entity that decided, after 25 years of owning their mark, to suddenly express an interest in a domain name that the registrant sercured.

I am not stating that there are no cybersquatters out there who deserve to be deprived of a domain name they registered in bad faith (i.e. Madonna.com). But the laws allow for frivilous lawsuits that do permit financially stable companies to wrongfully take what does not belong to them.

Please comment!

**NexSite** · 03-21-2005, 09:08 AM

well, just look at the udrp cases and before you know it you 'll have a slew of jacked up decisions to write about. Many of the "losers", repondants, can still be easily contacted. But I might add that after a udrp case, many a holder likes to shift gears and take a different low profile approach because of the "squatter" steroetype associated with losers af UDRP cases, and might not want to revisit that in a very public way. One decision I personally thought was totally jacked was the case of militarylife.com. Made my trigger finger twitch.