A cybersquatter is holding the Spanish government to ransom by refusing
to give up the domain names of several government ministries unless
they agree to transfer water to all of Spain’s drought stricken regions
reports London’s The Daily Telegraph.
A cybersquatter is holding the Spanish government to ransom by refusing
to give up the domain names of several government ministries unless
they agree to transfer water to all of Spain’s drought stricken regions
reports London’s The Daily Telegraph.
Following last month’s Spanish election and the subsequent creation of
four new ministries, an enterprising registrant registered the names of
the new ministries, beating the new government agencies to it.
The registrant, whom the Telegraph reports is " unnamed blogger from
Alicante, south-east Spain", will only give the domain names to the
government if his demands are met. And the demand is for the prime
minister "to introduce a nationwide system of transferring water from
the River Ebro, which runs from the Pyrenees to the Mediterranean, to
all of those regions in Spain that suffer water shortages."
The government is taking action to retrieve the domain names, but in the meantime will be setting up alternatives.
To read more of this story in The Daily Telegraph, see www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/25/wspain125.xml.
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