To take down gripe site through cybersquatting complaint — Entrepreneur fails
Panelist rules that registrant has rights or legitimate interests in domain name.
An Austin-based real estate entrepreneur has lost a cybersquatting case he filed against a gripe site.
David Lawver filed the dispute against DavidLawverScammer .com, which is used by a site that outlines six lawsuits that have been filed against Lawver.
The site ranks second on Google for his name, just behind his LinkedIn profile. The domain was registered in August.
While the site does not reveal the person behind it, the cybersquatting dispute reveals that it’s a man in Pakistan. The registrant did not respond to the dispute.
Under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy, panelists generally won’t order the transfer of domain names used for gripe sites. This is especially true when no one seeing the domain would think it was somehow affiliated with the Complainant. Panelist Richard Hill noted that the domain name is akin to one that ends in “sucks” and that the registrant has rights or legitimate interests in the domain name.
