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Bloomberg Makes Another Acquisition

Offending domains revert to billionaire


BY CHRISTINA NUNEZ

August 20, 2001
 


Mike's disliked: Bloomberg has shut down a detractor's Web sites.

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.


Photo: Gregory Heisler
 
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