[BNM] Can anyone offer some legal advise on a domain?

[Andrew Collington]

Thought I'd just bump this again on the off-chance that someone has 
anyone come across anything like this before and can possibly offer any 
advice.  I'm guessing, though, that as it got no responses originally 
that no one else has been on the receiving end of something like this 
before?

Cheers,

Andy



php at amnuts.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wonder if anyone can help out with a bit of a legal issue involving a
> domain name and the content found on the website it points to?  Here's the
> brief story...
>
> There is a community-based organisation, mainly staffed by volunteers.  A
> while ago (March 2004) they had one of their volunteers offer to make them
> a website.  That person registered a domain name and built the site. 
> However, recently they have become very disgruntled towards to
> organisation and have replaced the content of the website with porn
> banners, satanic worship banners and the like.  Obviously this is not very
> good for the organisation and the person who registered the domain on
> their behalf is claiming that they own it and can put whatever they like
> on the site.
>
> Is there are legal footing for the organisation?  Does the
> Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act have any grounds here, even
> though it's a U.S. Federal law?  Or is there something comparable in
> British law?
>
> Any advice would be much appreciated!
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Andy
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