Feb 19 2008
Freedom Of Speech Is Not So Free!
Throughout the past couple of months there has been alot of discussion about legal action being taken against domainers in 2008. I have even posted a few articles here on the blog about it. Here is more proof that the domain assets you own are not safe if big business does not agree with your game plans.
A judge in San Franscisco has ordered the site Wikileaks.org, to shut down after posting sensitive bank documents from the Cayman Isalands Bank, Juliuos Baer Bank. The site publishes documents from businesses that conduct unethical behavior. The site has become very popular among internet surfers.
Judge Jeffrey S. White of the Federal District Court in San Francisco granted a permanent injunction ordering Dynadot of San Mateo, Calif., the site’s domain name registrar, to disable the Wikileaks.org domain name. Additionally, he ordered them to lock the domain to keep it from being transfered. So much for our First Amendment Rights.
Small cases like as surfacing all over the place. The eye of the storm can not be far behind as more judgements are won by big business. This only gives them traction in pursuing our domain assets thru legal channels cheaply for their use.
And this!
“Social networking company MySpace (.com) has won the right to have the domain name MySpace.co.uk transferred to it despite the fact that it was registered six years before MySpace (.com) was founded.
See here;
http://out-law.com/default.aspx?page=8834
Patrick
Very surprising, particularly given the juridsiction (CA and SF have traditionally been very protective of first amendment rights). I doubt this one is over–in all liklihood it will be appealed, and could very possibly end up before the Supreme Court.