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People trying to read the Daily Mail online no longer will risk ending up at an anti-abortion site.
Last week, the plug was pulled (for now) on www.charlestondailymail.com. It linked visitors to the anti-abortion Web site, which features pictures of aborted fetuses.
The Daily Mail, which publishes on www.dailymail.com, said the Web site was an example of cybersquatting, a phenomenon where someone appropriates a domain name that sounds like it belongs to someone else to make money or promote a point of view.
The Web site, which was long owned by Bronx businessman John Barry, went down after U.S. District Judge Joe Goodwin issued a temporary restraining order requiring the Web site's owner to terminate the link.
On Monday, Goodwin issued a temporary injunction after finding that the newspaper was likely to prevail in the lawsuit. Nobody represented Barry at the hearing in the federal courthouse in Charleston.
The newspaper hopes to use the lawsuit to gain ownership of www.charlestondailymail.com. Since the Daily Mail filed its lawsuit, Barry has transferred the ownership of www.charlestondailymail.com to a man in Pakistan.
In recent months, Barry has registered a bevy of domain names that arguably belong to newspapers, pop stars and others. Many of them are linked to anti-abortion Web sites.
Last October, Barry was ordered to transfer ownership of Web sites that sounded like newspapers in Tennessee, Idaho and Oregon to the publications.
Last week, the plug was pulled (for now) on www.charlestondailymail.com. It linked visitors to the anti-abortion Web site, which features pictures of aborted fetuses.
The Daily Mail, which publishes on www.dailymail.com, said the Web site was an example of cybersquatting, a phenomenon where someone appropriates a domain name that sounds like it belongs to someone else to make money or promote a point of view.
The Web site, which was long owned by Bronx businessman John Barry, went down after U.S. District Judge Joe Goodwin issued a temporary restraining order requiring the Web site's owner to terminate the link.
On Monday, Goodwin issued a temporary injunction after finding that the newspaper was likely to prevail in the lawsuit. Nobody represented Barry at the hearing in the federal courthouse in Charleston.
The newspaper hopes to use the lawsuit to gain ownership of www.charlestondailymail.com. Since the Daily Mail filed its lawsuit, Barry has transferred the ownership of www.charlestondailymail.com to a man in Pakistan.
In recent months, Barry has registered a bevy of domain names that arguably belong to newspapers, pop stars and others. Many of them are linked to anti-abortion Web sites.
Last October, Barry was ordered to transfer ownership of Web sites that sounded like newspapers in Tennessee, Idaho and Oregon to the publications.
