It seems a ton of people have replied, however your questions was... "How is this fair?"
To answer the fairness question, it isn't. It is not meant to be. If a remedy is in order, your client would need to spin this into a damages or more specifically a copyright issue. Even then, they need to take this up in a civil court. Not criminal for copyright. We ourselves are dealing with an idiot that copied our site design. Compare: http://www.speedtheband.com to http://www.spyproductions.com/ Yesterday I began a suit against the owner on behalf of our company and I had to use a local "federal" court using code 802. The filing fee alone was $150.00. This was not a civil matter. We just want this bozo to take the site down. His ISP is not cooperating. I've learned from this that if we want our filing fees and damages that we need to go civil. F that. Who has the money to waste? So you're client would be best off contacting the new owner and trying all means necessary to get his domain back without legal means. Other than a contract for transfer of ownership. Moral of the story ...the thief has all the rights, not the victim. God bless America. Only here. You wonder why people go postal. Like I said, good luck. Regards, Lars -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Schultheiss Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 2:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: UDRP My client had a domain name that was allowed to expire due to circumstances beyond their control. It has since been reregistered by someone with no obvious connection to the domain and it has since been pointed at a pornographic website. My client is not opposed to following the UDRP procedures to regain control of the domain but if I'm reading it correctly, my client will have to pay approximately $2000 to WIPO or one of the 3 similar organizations and if they win, they can do whatever they want with the domain and the only punishment the current registrant will face is loss of the domain. How is that fair?
