REDIRECT: RE: Domain law

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At 03:52 PM 1/12/98 -0800, Betsy Nuttall wrote:
>Would appreciate some advice on domain name law, if this is not the
>correct group for this question please re-direct:
>
>A potential client came to me recently, price-shopping for a web site,
>he's had several quotes already, he named off a few competitors...he
>mentioned that he was not happy with their prices and had signed
>nothing. As I prepared a proposal for him I did a "whois" at Internic of
>his company's name...I was pretty surprised to find that one of these
>web companies had already registered his name...2 months ago...2 days
>after he asked for a quote from them! They had originally quoted him an
>outrageous fee for registration...now they own the domain!
>
>Needless to say, I informed the client...he was very upset, that name
>had belonged to him for many years and is unique. This seems extremely
>unethical to me...what can the client do? He has kept the written
>proposal with a date stamp on it, and Internic states that the domain
>was registered 2 days after that...can the client sue?
>I have never run up against this type of problem before, and am not up
>to the minute on domain law, I usually let the ISP handle that.
>
>Thank you in advance,
>Betsy Nuttall
>Sun Studios
>
>

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