FC: Scientology's domain name cybersquatting, and payback

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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From: Dave_Touretzky () cs cmu edu
To: declan () well com
Subject: Scientology cybersquatting: chance for payback
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 19:47:04 -0500

Declan,

Politech readers will appreciate this story on ScientologyWatch.org
about how CCHR, the Citizen's Commission on Human Rights, engages in
domain name hijacking.  CCHR is one of the Scientology cult's more
obnoxious front organizations; they're basically a hate group
targeting the mental health professions.  See www.cchr.org for
examples of their lurid propaganda.  They grabbed wfmh.net in an
attempt to poach surfers looking for the World Federation for Mental
Health (wfmh.org).

Now there's a chance for payback: ScientologyWatch.org reports that
the domain cchr.ca is presently unclaimed!  Who will be the lucky
purchaser of this domain?  We'll have to wait and see!

  http://tinyurl.com/785m

-- Dave Touretzky




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