So he bought the DCistNow.com domain name and on Monday launched a local news blog of his own.
...Ricketts does not appear to have the same enthusiasm for Myers’s idea. On Wednesday Partridge Partners, an intellectual property law firm that said it represented DCist’s parent firm DNAinfo, contacted Myers requesting that he cease and desist....The letter said Myers’s blog may also violate the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, a 1999 law that concerns deceptive domain names. The firm said Myers may be liable for $100,000 in damages not including attorneys’ fees.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 9 November 2017 19:42 (six years ago) link