I have a weird situation that I am wondering the legalities of. Basically the place I used to work for part time - they laid me off due to not wanting any part timers working at the facility in any department. They laid off the network guy that actually does work, Me!
Long story short, I told them that their domain name is expiring soon (first part of November) multiple times. They haven't renewed it yet. They let the .net domain expire already, yet they own the .org. I registered the .net and have "backordered" the .com domain. I highly doubt they will renew it before it expires, as their DynDNS account expired and all access to the website and email stopped working. Of course there was a panic call to me to find out what was wrong - they didn't pay the bill for DNS services!
My question is, what are the legalities of me registering this domain (mostly out of spite and to teach them a lesson!) and holding on to it? Is it really cyber squatting, and can I be prosecuted for registering it? It is a currently active domain.
Long story short, I told them that their domain name is expiring soon (first part of November) multiple times. They haven't renewed it yet. They let the .net domain expire already, yet they own the .org. I registered the .net and have "backordered" the .com domain. I highly doubt they will renew it before it expires, as their DynDNS account expired and all access to the website and email stopped working. Of course there was a panic call to me to find out what was wrong - they didn't pay the bill for DNS services!
My question is, what are the legalities of me registering this domain (mostly out of spite and to teach them a lesson!) and holding on to it? Is it really cyber squatting, and can I be prosecuted for registering it? It is a currently active domain.