Noervig.dk

9 years ago a guy called Peter Veileborg played some games and surfed the web and not unlike most gamers and Internet users he had an alias that he identified himself by. He decided to buy a domain with his alias called orango.dk and for the past 9 years he’s been using this domain for mail and a small private webpage.

Earlier this year a new company started offering web services from their website Orango.nu. Recently they got greedy and wanted more. They wanted orango.dk as well so it could redirect visitors to orango.nu. Disregarding all moral and proper respect to this private person who had his personal website through 9 years they abused their power as company and convinced the Danish domain name appeal committee to take away the domain from Peter and hand it over to the company.

This has unleashed a storm of protests and harsh remarks on hundreds of Danish blogs and news sites. Not only because of the immoral behaviour and disrespect this company has shown but because no private person can feel safe anymore from this kind of domain name hijacking. All the money and work you put in to buying a domain name, setting up a server, building a website, establishing a mail-server, spreading the new name and mail addresses and so on can now be taken away from you as a private person if some random new company with low moral decides they want the name. And there’s nothing you can do or say about it.

A few days ago the owner of gratisdns.dk, Peter Larsen, contacted Peter Veileborg and offered to help him bring this to court. I sincerely hope they win so we can feel safe again when spending time and money on creating new websites.

You can read more about this on the following site (in danish):
http://www.comon.dk/nyheder/Domaene-ejer-mister-navnet-efter-ni-ar-1.247341.html