David Hinojosa,bought rights for the domain name baylorsucks.com and used the site as a forum for Baylor students.
Indeed the domain name was owned by Baylor in the past as Director of Media Relations Lori Fogleman sais :"That domain name's registration had been obtained several years ago by a Baylor alumnus who did not want it to fall into the wrong hands. That alum had the rights to that domain name and gave it to Baylor."
Purchasing of domain names has never been a procedure Baylor follows, Fogleman said.
"It is not Baylor's practice to purchase domain names. Rather, Baylor, like other universities, obtains control of the domain name from an individual who registered it in bad faith," Fogleman said. "(Baylor does this) by successfully utilizing the arbitration procedures of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)."
Hinojosa said he doesn't feel that Baylor will have anything to ensue litigation against him in regards to his Web site.
"I just seized the opportunity to own a Web site where people can express their thoughts. I wouldn't just give it back to them, No," Hinojosa said. "I could see why Baylor would want it back but if they really, really, cared about it they would have made sure their names don't expire."
Hinojosa said that he loves Baylor, and he did not buy the site in hopes of Baylor wanting to buy it from him.
"I always overhear people talking about things they don't like on campus. I want them to know they can come to my site and say that stuff, too," Hinojosa said. "It is cool to be the guy that owns the site where people can express their opinions freely."
As far as litigation against Hinojosa is concerned, Fogleman said that Baylor is staying focused on the positive and not worrying about negative highlights against Baylor.
"You cannot win in a game that never ends which is trying to determine every possible variation of Baylor's name and the multiple extensions that can go with it." Fogleman said. "Our time and energy are spent on maximizing the use of Baylor's name to tell the great story about Baylor. We aren't spending a lot of time trying to find places where people might say something negative about Baylor."