Man Buys Police Department’s Domain Name After Getting Ticket

RawJustice.com ^ | 10.8.10

[Michael Barnes]

He's not. If memory serves, he put in for the purchase of the domain. The register tried contacting the PD, after a few WEEKS of this, he finally won the domain name. He's legal.

There is a better written story about this floating around FR..

[GSWarrior]

Traffic-technology companies get a cut of every speeding ticket payment their cameras are responsible for, I’d wager.

[Erasmus]

Better board the dogs at the veterinarian's for a few weeks until it's over.

...and Grandma too.

[The KG9 Kid]

I'm sure the FBI will send Elliot Ness to get right on that.

The FBI has huge -- *HUGE* -- interest in internet squabbles. They're always gangbusting chat rooms where people say racist things, where "cyberbullying" occurs, and breaking up squabbles on various automotive forums, and putting criminals who register expired domain names behind bars where they belong, right?

Get real. Between their focus on foreign terrorism and political high crimes, the Federal government doesn't have any resources or court time dedicated for Internet bullshit like some podunk police department in Cricket Chirp Arkansas who lost their flippin' domain name to some character getting back at them for a speeding ticket.

[Onelifetogive]

Actually, this was posted here back in June.

I contend that FReerepublic licenses its search engine from MrMagooSearches.com

[SkyDancer]

"Meanwhile In Australia"

[Jack Black]

Mr. McCrary may want to review the federal laws on cybersquatting.

He doesn't fit them, at all. Especially since he's using the site for something that is related to the site name. I don't think even the board that settles naming disputes would force him to give it back to the PD.

[Joe Boucher]

no, they are looking for 2banana’s like u and me from out of town to screw

[circlecity]

Who said anything about the FBI!!??? There is a personal cause of action under they cybersquatting statutes. Anyone who has a cause of action under the statute can file suit, the FBI never comes into play at all.

[The KG9 Kid]

Some old website goes offline, and it gets bought up by a holding company. The statue you believe prevents this isn't written so that just anyone can go file a complaint and the US government makes sure they get their little website back. There's no teeth to that law, I'm sure: Stuff like this happens all the time.

There's no revenue lost. There was no customer service at the old site, and nobody depended on it for anything. It was just a police department site that had a picture of the police chief, his email address link, and the department's SWAT team and pictures of their drug sniffing dog. They didn't even know that their site went offline until many months later when this guy's story appeared in USA Today. That pretty much shows that their site never meant squat to anyone. It was just a vanity site for some little police department up in the Smokies.

If there was something legally actionable here, it would have been done already. Skeeter Creek Police Department of TN has no case here.

[Slings and Arrows]

Just awesome.

[ShadowAce]

Mr. McCrary may want to review the federal laws on cybersquatting.

He's actually using it. Claiming cybersquatting would be difficult.

[TheOldLady]

Slings, did you see Post 26 by SkyDancer? Very clever guys from Oz.

[a fool in paradise]

The officers would probably visit their homepage more if he did.

[Liberty Valance]

LOL! I love it!

[Hoodat]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2530271/posts

[GSWarrior]

i know, I know....it was posted before.

[KoRn]

mark

[Slings and Arrows]

Go Aussies!