Hello,
Here is the situation:
One guy is buying the first and last name's of people in a certain industry who are are not famous but are trying to make a name for themselves on a small scale in life in their field. Most of these names are unique enough that few (sometimes no one) in the country share the name. (not a real name but make believe example: Danisha Laprot - very rare name.. not like "john smith") It's also clear who he is targeting because he takes out groups at a time.
There is a clear pattern that he is in the business of just taking people's names. He also has lost many ICAAN disputes. Most end with him never appearing but suspiciously changing the whois contact right before to a made up person with that name he makes it look to appear is in another country. He never wins these decisions. (unlikely to win even if he did ever appear)
He lives in US but isnt american. He doesnt listen to legal threats. He claims that his names arent actually his, he just puts his name up as a whois privacy shield for his customers in another country. However, years of background show he just uses that as a lame excuse.
In this case, he bought a group of friend's first and last names. All pretty unique. Everyone is upset. Paying $1500 to bring it to ICAAN each is not an option. So the main question is.... can everyone get together and dispute all 5 names against him at once? If everyone chipped in the cost of fighting would be much less. Moreover, could 100 people do this all at once if I knew of a 100 other people he is doing this to?
If not is there anything that can stop him from doing this to people? any other way to get the names back for no fees?
For now, I'm thinking... taking all his names that he owns which is MOSTLY names he is ripping off from people and then reporting each violation to his PPC company again and again until he runs out of them. However, these people still wont have their names.
Thanks for any thoughts or suggestions.
Here is the situation:
One guy is buying the first and last name's of people in a certain industry who are are not famous but are trying to make a name for themselves on a small scale in life in their field. Most of these names are unique enough that few (sometimes no one) in the country share the name. (not a real name but make believe example: Danisha Laprot - very rare name.. not like "john smith") It's also clear who he is targeting because he takes out groups at a time.
There is a clear pattern that he is in the business of just taking people's names. He also has lost many ICAAN disputes. Most end with him never appearing but suspiciously changing the whois contact right before to a made up person with that name he makes it look to appear is in another country. He never wins these decisions. (unlikely to win even if he did ever appear)
He lives in US but isnt american. He doesnt listen to legal threats. He claims that his names arent actually his, he just puts his name up as a whois privacy shield for his customers in another country. However, years of background show he just uses that as a lame excuse.
In this case, he bought a group of friend's first and last names. All pretty unique. Everyone is upset. Paying $1500 to bring it to ICAAN each is not an option. So the main question is.... can everyone get together and dispute all 5 names against him at once? If everyone chipped in the cost of fighting would be much less. Moreover, could 100 people do this all at once if I knew of a 100 other people he is doing this to?
If not is there anything that can stop him from doing this to people? any other way to get the names back for no fees?
For now, I'm thinking... taking all his names that he owns which is MOSTLY names he is ripping off from people and then reporting each violation to his PPC company again and again until he runs out of them. However, these people still wont have their names.
Thanks for any thoughts or suggestions.
