Posted on 05/02/2003 6:16:42 PM PDT by Carthago delenda est
Ladies and gentlemen of FreeRepublic.com:
As you may know, and as was reported on both the BoycottHollywood website and Emperor Misha's blog (scroll down), the lowlife, scum-sucking, bloviating, self-absorbed mollycoddles who dare to lecture the rest of us about "free speech" while joyously licking dog feces off Joe Stalin's shoes had gained a temporary victory in having their "talent" agent, the William Morris Agency (Rick Hersh/Rick Bradley - 310.274.7451), pressure the Dotster.com people to take Boycott Hollywood off the web.
The website is still running.
Dotster's official cover-our-rear-ends excuse was to say that the site had not provided accurate contact information. BoycottHollywood responded that this was because those running the site have received numerous death threats, and they did not want this information to be passed to just anybody.
The owner of the site was briefly unable to update her site or access her Email, but this is no longer the case. As of 8pm last night, she was able to do both things, and now the DNS appears to be back to normal. Here's what she says:
"Contact from Dotster with an explanation of what the hell is going on would be a nice thing. But, no word as of yet. I'm not sure what this means - - if the site stays up? Or if it's still scheduled to be taken down? I wish I knew - - however, for now, it seems, we are still here so I just wanted to fire off a note of thank you to everyone who has been supporting this site over this whole William Morris fiasco (oh, I haven't heard from them either).
So, I guess we're hanging in there -- I'm tentatively optimistic about it, but reasonably cynical, as well. :) Good day!"
This website ain't goin' down without a fight, folks! Does anybody have information on how to get in touch with Dotster.com? I've been having trouble doing so. Even though it might be difficult to contact them, it may still be worthwhile to send them an Email or call them up with your thoughts. This may be just what the doctor ordered for keeping BoycottHollywood online. God knows that companies hate to tee off potential customers.
I just want to urge my fellow Freepers to let those involved know your thoughts, and to support BoycottHollywood. Why?
Because Hollyweird must be stopped! Let's put a smackdown on the pukes -- let's give a wedgie to the whiners. Let's play brick dodgeball with those pinksqueak treasonous denizens of Cockroach Central Emporium who hum the Horst Wessel Lied when they're not complaining about their free speech being "violated." Let's break their bones with sticks and stones, and smash the teacups out of their hands as they raise their pinky fingers in an effete salute to Flyover Country. We will burn their seas, ravage their coasts, destroy their livelihoods, and send swarms of splenetic citizens to verbally harass them and eat out their substance! To the barricades, Freepers! To the line! THIS IS WAR! ARE YOU WITH ME???
In order to accept that, you'd have to believe that "1234 Blah St., NoWhere WI" is a valid address.
As noted earlier, the website could have been registered with another firm in an "owner by proxy" arrangement that would have concealed their identities (unless a judge ordered the proxy to turn over the information).
Instead, the boycott-hollywood.us owners chose to violate the registration agreement by entering a bogus address. Their assertion that they were being threatened is not a legally valid excuse to breach the contract. William Morris complained to dotster.com, and dotster had no choice but to find that boycott-hollywood.us was in violation of the contract. Dotster probably sent the 15-day notice to the owners by USPS mail, but it was undeliverable due to the phony registration info.
The point is - complaining to dotster.com will do no good. boycott-hollywood.us simply needs to find a legitimate way to register their domain name.
You are correct. That doesn't mean I'm not sorry about that.
Who the hell appointed WMA as the WHOIS Polizei?
Anyone can report that a registration contains false info. My dog could have filed a complaint, and the registrar would be required to act as dotster did in this care.
So, how is this different from a SLAPP suit then?
In the context that WMA filed the complain, it was sort of like a SLAPP. Except it wasn't a lawsuit, it was just a slam dunk complaint.
That domain appears to have accurate information:
whois facesforpeace.org -Organization:
Faces for Peace
Tim Hampton
4394 McPherson
St. Louis, MO 63108
US
Phone: 314-371-1507
Email: wordwind@hotmail.com
Registrar Name....: Register.com
Registrar Whois...: whois.register.com
Registrar Homepage: http://www.register.com
Domain Name: FACESFORPEACE.ORG
Created on..............: Tue, Mar 18, 2003
Expires on..............: Thu, Mar 18, 2004
Record last updated on..: Tue, Apr 22, 2003
Administrative Contact:
Faces for Peace
Tim Hampton
4394 McPherson
St. Louis, MO 63108
US
Phone: 314-371-1507
Email: wordwind@hotmail.com
Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
Register.Com
Domain Registrar
575 8th Avenue - 11th Floor
New York, NY 10018
US
Phone: 902-749-2701
Fax..: 902-749-5429
Email: domain-registrar@register.com
Domain servers in listed order:
DNS5.REGISTER.COM 216.21.234.73
DNS6.REGISTER.COM 216.21.226.73
The process of looking up whois information is more complicated since the registration process was decentralized. For .COM, .NET and .ORG top level domains, use the Verisign Global Registry Services for the preliminary lookup. For .US, start at www.whois.us. For .ORG, start at Public Interest Registry whois. In all of those cases, you must then go to the registrars whois server to get the full information.
Keep searching - and use the correct whois servers - and you will certainly find some leftist sites with bogus registration info.
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