Canadian Band tries to reverse domain name hijack (1.Viewing)

The Canadian music group Simple Plan’s management company has been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking in its attempt to get the domain SimplePlan.com back after it expired.



At the outset, you can sympathize with Simple Plan’s situation. It registered the domain name through a company that was apparently a Tucows reseller. That reseller’s website went dark when it was time to renew the domain. It expired and was auctioned through GoDaddy Auctions.



But Simple Plan decided to blame the person who won the domain at the auction, claiming his plan was to “fraudulently hijack” the domain from the band and then ask for a lot of money to transfer it back.



Simple Plan band tries to reverse domain name hijack - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News



Thank you

Their new website is now:

officialsimpleplan.com

No way they just hand-registered that domain, and it had to be an aftermarket purchase - so how did it end up at some backwater registrar?

Years ago I had the Canadian Band "Telegram" try the same thing with telegram.ca, I told them to pound sand. They never brought a CDRP, but huffed and puffed.

The domain was originally registered in 1996 and never fully dropped, so it was sold in a pre-release as the create date never changed. It looks like Simple plan owned it at least since 2001: https://web.archive.org/web/20010516211931/http://www.simpleplan.com:80/

Yeah, they probably bought it around then, but no way a 1996 registration makes sense, as they only formed in 1999.