FC: Political cybersquatting, aka registering opponents' names

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 12:06:00 -0700
To: declan () well com
From: Mike Masnick <mike () techdirt com>
Subject: More political cybersquatting

Hi Declan,

Thought you might be interested to read about this case:

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/TechTV/techtv_cybersquattingpols020911.html

Where a candidate for California Assembly has registered the domain names 
of his incubment opponent.  The opponent is (with some justification) not 
too pleased.  However, the interesting point is that he now seems to be 
making it a platform point that, if re-elected, he'll make cybersquatting 
laws more onerous.

In other words, platform policy decisions based on vengeance....

Mike

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Dirty Online Campaigning?
Candidate Uses Net as Weapon Against Incumbent Opponent

By Jim Goldman, Tech Live Silicon Valley Bureau Chief

F R E M O N T, Calif., Sept. 11 — Saying "the Web is crucial" in today's 
political campaigns, California Assembly candidate Dan Dow has an official 
Web site: Dandow.com.

But he's also registered the URLs JohnDutra.com, JohnDutra.net and 
JohnDutra.org.

And incumbent Assemblyman John Dutra — Dan Dow's opponent in the upcoming 
election for California's 20th District — is none too pleased that his name 
is being used against him in the campaign.






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