Ask HN: Cybersquatting a startup domain, how to protect?
I'm the founder of a small Italian startup. In 2010 we developed a simple web app called http://urli.st/, in 2011 we got founded and we established a company (an italian SRL, similar to an American LLC). We worked a lot on the new webapp and we are almost ready to deploy it.
In 2010 the guy who owns urlist.com wrote me to "put the two together in some manner" (his domain was empty), I answered "no", he published on his domain a fake urlist page with our "about" in it. Now urlist.com il just a redirect to his "personal" delicious page.
It would be great for us to have the urlist.com domain but I don't know how much the guy will charge us. We do not have much money. I just do not want urlist.com to redirect to a delicious page.
In 2010 the guy who owns urlist.com wrote me to "put the two together in some manner" (his domain was empty), I answered "no", he published on his domain a fake urlist page with our "about" in it. Now urlist.com il just a redirect to his "personal" delicious page.
It would be great for us to have the urlist.com domain but I don't know how much the guy will charge us. We do not have much money. I just do not want urlist.com to redirect to a delicious page.
Is there anything we can do to protect us?