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Mike's disliked: Bloomberg
has shut down a detractor's Web sites.
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Michael
Bloomberg's No. 1 antifan is persevering despite a recent defeat.
As New York Metro reported
last month, programmer Nikolai Golovenkov was facing a complaint
from the mayoral candidate's company regarding Golovenkov's use
of the Web addresses elbloomberg.com and bloombergmichael.com. On
July 30, an Internet arbitration forum ordered Golovenkov, who chose
not to contest the complaint, to relinquish the domains.
However, the Russian emigre held on to one domain that escaped
arbitration: mrbloombergsucks.com,
where his flourishing one-man diatribe has enough anti-Bloomberg
sentiment to fill the empty michaelbloombergsucks.com bulletin board
three times over.
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Meanwhile, what Bloomberg will do with Golovenkov's other Bloomberg-centric
domains is unclear. Bloomberg's company did not return calls seeking
comment, but as of this week the URLs began pointing to error pages
after weeks of being left alone. Presently, mrbloombergsucks.com
reads at the top, "Stolen: Elbloomberg.com and BloombergMichael.com
by Hon. James A. Carmody (the arbitration judge)."
Why is Golovenkov so dedicated? He denies Bloomberg's assertion
that he was trying to make a quick buck by cybersquatting. "We did
this site because we are fed up with merchants who buy public offices,"
he writes on the page. As for what happens now, Golovenkov thinks
he has finally picked a winner in the mrbloombergsucks domain and
will not face further complaints. In the meantime, other anti-Bloomberg
domains -- such as f***bloomberg.com -- remain unchallenged and
under the control of their non-billionaire owners.
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