Sarasota Association of Realtors Steals Domain from Member
Saturday, October 25th, 2008The Sarasota Association of Realtors first charged one of its members, Marc Rasmussen, with an ethics violations, and then, after losing that case, dragged him to an ICANN hearing to get control of his domain.
Even though he won the ethics hearing, Rasmussen lost the ICANN arbitration, which ordered that the domain be transferred to SAR. He has filed a federal lawsuit to regain/retain control of his domain. Then, even though Network Solutions, the registrar of the domain, told him they would keep it in place and locked until the litigation was over, NetSol almost immediately transferred the domain to SAR, which promptly began redirecting it to their own lame site.