Ex eBay Chief Files Cybersquatting Petition
Meg Whitman, who stepped down as CEO of eBay earlier this year, has been considering running for California governor in the 2010 election. Since leaving her eBay post, Whitman has been serving as senior advisor to John McCain’s presidential campaign.
Although Whitman says she hasn’t yet made a decision about running, she wanted to register some appropriate domain names for her possible future campaign. She found that megwhitmanforgovernor.com, megwhitman2010.com, meg2010.com, whitmanforgovernor.com and whitman2010.com were all registered by a Thomas Hall back in January, just days after it was first reported that Whitman was considering a run for governor.
According to a report in the San Francisco Bee, Whitman has filed a UDRP petition with WIPO in a bid to wrest control of the domains from Hall. Whitman’s lawyers contacted Hall in June to demand that he turn over the domains to Whitman, the Bee said, but Hall declined.
Earlier this year, Whitman gained the domain megwhitman.com in an out-of-court settlement after filing a similar UDRP petition.
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