Article: Baylor U. triumphs in Web domain dispute

Anita Pere
University Wire
03-19-2008
(The Lariat) (UWIRE) WACO, Texas -- John Stipe, a Baylor alumnus, was notified Sunday of an arbitration order that he relinquish his Baylor domain names to the university within 10 days.

The National Arbitration Forum, which handles domain-name disputes for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, sided with the university's stance that Stipe's domain names are similar enough to Baylor-owned sites that Internet surfers could be misled. The domain names include baylorbearssuck.com, baylorbears.biz, baylorbears.name, baylorbears.net and baylorbears.tv.

Stipe bought the expired domain names for close to $15 each, he said, from an online list ...

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