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Mike D. claims Chiz squatted on his domain?

Jove Francisco and I discussed about the technical merits of this story where Senatoriable Mike Defensor is claiming the opposition (apparently Chiz Escudero) is behind the hi-jacking or cyber-squatting of his domain, mikedefensor.com.

I did some digging before I gave the go signal to Jove to run the story on his blog. We’ll just look at the WHOIS info of the domain first. From DNSStuff, we get this whois registration information:

Domain Name………. mikedefensor.com
Creation Date…….. 2006-08-03
Registration Date…. 2006-08-03
Expiry Date………. 2007-08-03
Organisation Name…. MD MD
Organisation Address. KL
Organisation Address. KL
Organisation Address. KL
Organisation Address. 50400
Organisation Address. KL
Organisation Address. MALAYSIA

Admin Name……….. MD MD
Admin Address…….. KL
Admin Address…….. KL
Admin Address…….. KL
Admin Address…….. 50400
Admin Address…….. KL
Admin Address…….. MALAYSIA
Admin Email………. [email protected]
Admin Phone………. +60.163558044
Admin Fax…………

Tech Name………… YahooDomains TechContact
Tech Address……… 701 First Ave.
Tech Address………
Tech Address……… Sunnyvale
Tech Address……… 94089
Tech Address……… CA
Tech Address……… UNITED STATES
Tech Email……….. [email protected]
Tech Phone……….. +1.6198813096
Tech Fax………….
Name Server………. yns1.yahoo.com
Name Server………. yns2.yahoo.com

Same is true with michaeldefensor.com.

First, the domain was only registered over 5 months ago, August 3, 2006 thru Yahoo! Domains. The Registrant (domains owner) was wise enough not to put his name and exact address although it hinted Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Second, in the domain name space, it’s a first come first server basis. Certainly, he shares his last name, Defensor, with so many other people and obviously he’s not the only guy around Christened with the name Michael or nicknamed Mike. So, one could argue that another guy named Michael Defensor regsitered those domains.

Ok, for the sake of argument that those domains were registered just to capitalize on the popularity of Mike D., there’s still no empirical data to prove that Chiz Escudero or one of the guys from the opposition did it. And if Mike’s claim is true that they’ll use it for a smear campaign against him or the administration, the real owners of the site should have done it by now.

Thirdly, cyber-squatting have been a part of the internet economy. People register names, generic or otherwise, in bulk in the hopes that one day these domains would have a bigger value than what they originally paid for it (around $8/each a year). So Mike D’s name seems to be valuable now that elections are closing in.

What to do, what to do Mike?

You vast resources and legions of advisers would have already told you to contact [email protected]/[email protected] and ask the Registrant-owner that you are willing to buy the domain from them. They might give you a price from $100 to a few thousands green bucks depending on how eager you want your domain.

If you can prove that there’s no other Mike Defensor who can claim name to the domain, you might want to try out ICANN and go for a UDRP (Domain-Name Dispute Resolution Policy). Google it if you don’t know how to file for one.

Again, Mike can always get his own dotPH domain — mikedefensor.ph is still available!

Again, as I told Jove, it’s a cunning political tactic to throw the dice on the opposition. Don’t they always? So, the battle for internet domination by politicos is just starting!

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

11 Responses

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  2. Avatar for Gene Gene says:

    ok talaga ang mga politicians noh, pati internet pinakgdidiskitahan hahahaha.

  3. Avatar for Carlo Carlo says:

    So it’s still available huh…

  4. Avatar for Dave Starr Dave Starr says:

    Kind of amusing, considering the good discussion we had here just a month or so back on the relative value of a .COM domain versus the same site as a .PH TLD. One would think that someone at Defensor’s level would at least want to snag the .ph site, since we can (possibly?) assume that the Philippines is the only country he’s likely to be running for election in?

    But you won’t find many US candidates with .US TLD’s, so again the .COM seems to always win by default.

  5. Avatar for elmer elmer says:

    Katuwaan lang, i got the www.mayelection.com – Ha? may election?, Oo may (roong) election! sa May ang election napapraning ang mga pulitiko eh!

  6. Avatar for nash nash says:

    serves mike defensor right. he’s a frigging corrupt twat trapo anyway

  7. Avatar for rexted rexted says:

    Just a suggestion why don’t Abe produce a blog dedicated to Election , same like Pinoy Blog.. And it will be called Halalan blog, or Election Blog…. What do you think.. ?

  8. Avatar for ChrisH ChrisH says:

    hahaha… yes, more customers for Abe… bigyan mo naman ako kahit isa, Yuga!! :D

  9. Avatar for hip2b2 hip2b2 says:

    then he should probably cybersquat back ;-) there are lots of opposition domains out there. even senatoriable domains. heck for $9/year with yahoo domains why not? then he can add a few dollars for domain protect.

    then … he should put a blog it in and use it to send his political message … of course, he can hire a pro-blogger to do all those for him.

    finally, more customers for abe!

  10. Avatar for Nick Nick says:

    Unless Mike has proof, his claim is probably just for politics sake…

    The Domain market has some very smart and quick thinking individuals who will snap up names in a second if it sees a potential for earnings..

    ICANN will usually only comply when trademarks and copyrights are thrown into the picture..

  11. Avatar for Andrew Andrew says:

    Well, Jove was right when he said that Mike Defensor was too late in registering his domain. If you dig a little deeper, it was registered way back in 2004 through GoDaddy. When it expired, someone else snapped it up with a different registrar. Why didn’t Mike say something in 2004? Simple. Ignorance.

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