Dreamhost is Cybersquatting?

RawAlex · 05-31-2009

(Story off of Perez Hilton of all places!)

Mel Gibson's girlfriend and baby mama Oksana Grigorieva is suing a web hosting company for buying the Oksana Grigorieva domain name and starting a website.

The company, DreamHost.com, is accused of "cybersquatting" by creating OksanaGrigorieva.com without Oksana's consent. Oksana filed the lawsuit with a L.A. County Superior Court, claiming the site portrayed itself to be an official domain, but also false information about her.

Toby · 05-31-2009

From what I can see looking at whois data, dreamhost is not the registrant, only the host. Registration was through an Enom reseller.

softball · 05-31-2009

its gone.

griffin8r · 05-31-2009

There's defintely precedent for this. The only person that successfully fended off a suit to drop a domain name was some guy who registered his actual name, and was sued by a company that had the same name. Damned if I can remember who it was.

My wife actually registered AFLACVA.com and squatted it, using it as a redirect to some of her other sites after she had a falling out with the company (she sold their insurance for a while) - AFLAC threatened to sue the host, and they shut the site down.

05-31-2009	#1
RawAlex Members $100 for every ImLive sign-up Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,036	Dreamhost is Cybersquatting? (Story off of Perez Hilton of all places!) Mel Gibson's girlfriend and baby mama Oksana Grigorieva is suing a web hosting company for buying the Oksana Grigorieva domain name and starting a website. The company, DreamHost.com, is accused of "cybersquatting" by creating OksanaGrigorieva.com without Oksana's consent. Oksana filed the lawsuit with a L.A. County Superior Court, claiming the site portrayed itself to be an official domain, but also false information about her. __________________ Let's go to the edge of disaster Push the pedal and go a little faster Let's slam into a wall at ramming speed Let's go to the edge of a mountain Jump off and lets start countin' Hit the ground and tell me if it bleeds

05-31-2009	#2
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05-31-2009	#3
softball Members Want to see your own Advertising Here! Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 6,165	Re: Dreamhost is Cybersquatting? its gone.

05-31-2009	#4
griffin8r Approving Gay AVS Sites Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 73	Re: Dreamhost is Cybersquatting? There's defintely precedent for this. The only person that successfully fended off a suit to drop a domain name was some guy who registered his actual name, and was sued by a company that had the same name. Damned if I can remember who it was. My wife actually registered AFLACVA.com and squatted it, using it as a redirect to some of her other sites after she had a falling out with the company (she sold their insurance for a while) - AFLAC threatened to sue the host, and they shut the site down.

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