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To: HAL9000
See the links to ICANN here:

http://lonewacko.com/blog/archives/000489.html

As I read it, ICANN recommends that companies like Dotster give their customers 15 days (or more) in which to correct inaccurate WHOIS info.

That doesn't mean that BH is not in violation of their contract. And, I also don't usually believe everything someone tells me, so BH might have been contacted by WMA, contrary to what they say.

However, whatever the other circumstances, WMA, in my opinion, appears to have attempted to "SLAPP" BH down, and should be condemned. And, Dotster/NamesBargain should also be condemned for what appears to me to be caving in.

(SLAPP: "A Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation, in which a corporation or developer sues an organization in an attempt to scare it into dropping protests against a corporate initiative." http://www.nolo.com/lawcenter/dictionary/dictionary_listing.cfm/Term/1264241E-6BCC-41DE-88FB065B11543680/alpha/S)
14 posted on 05/02/2003 7:03:30 PM PDT by lonewacko_dot_com (http://lonewacko.com/blog)
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To: lonewacko_dot_com
That doesn't mean that BH is not in violation of their contract.

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.

23 posted on 05/02/2003 8:06:19 PM PDT by HAL9000
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