California recently had something like this, where people were forced out of their houses under eminent domain, and the land was used for a mall. In addition, since property values instantly depressed when the project was announced the people were lowballed on the value of the land and the courts upheld that the low value was proper...

It really makes me sick to think about.

More than once I've had domains where the holding company has gone tits-up and I was unable to get through to anyone. It went so far as I had to start doing chargebacks because the automated systems kept billing me, in spite of my attempted cancellations. My concern is that the domain could be in such a registrar that doesn't give 2c about support, in which case it has to go through ICANN does it not?
Now I learned my lesson from the previous incidents, so now my registrations are with a slightly more reputable company, but I doubt a typo squatter is going to use a better registrar.

That said, your idea is sound, and in any event his inability to retrieve info even when in front of his company lawyers may still help his case that it's not him.

I don't know how big your company is, but if you have the IT dept behind you on this, can you arrange a meeting of your IT director, you, and the legal manager? Your role will be to sit silently unless there is a specific point of fact that the director is in error on, at which point you quietly tell him the correction.
Your goal should only be to say: I want to help you guys get the bad guys because: 1) I love it here and don't want to leave. & 2) These guys are hurting me as much as they are hurting the company by using my name fraudulently, much like they are typo squatting on the company's name.

Also, I posted earlier to get a lawyer, the best way to do this is to ask the local law school for a referral, they will get you in touch with a specialist in this area of law, likely an alumni, who very well make take the case on a pro-bono or at least a reduced cost if all your looking to do is defend yourself and your good name (as opposed to a countersuit, at which point if there is money to be made they will want a cut).
-nB

BEST WAY TO FIND A LAWYER:

Call your local (or closest) law school. They will be able to refer you to an (alumni likely) expert/specialist in the area of law you need help.

The two times I needed a lawyer I asked a lawyer for a referral to a specialist in the area.

As a bonus, when going through the law school, depending on your case, you might find pro-bono help.
-nB

CCing your boss on everything will not save your ass (it can help, but only if your boss has not made up his/her mind already).
Your solution is technically possible, but is not a guarantee to work, as he doesn't have all the log in information for the domain registrar, and/or the registrar likely could give (<) a shit.

Anyway, I am in the lawyer camp. I was in a totally different aside from employment related issue (I was looking to sue my employer for hostile environment) I was able to meet with a competent lawyer for about 30 min, lay out my case, and get sound advice, totally free... Advice that cost the lawyer money to give me:

My point to tomhudson being that not all lawyers are self serving greedy assholes (though the ones that are give everyone else the bad name).

Now in the OP situation he is trying to mount a defense of his good name, I would expect that a lawyer would charge you, but I would find one that would charge a reasonable amount, and would be capable of mounting a counter suit for slander/libel/unfair dismissal should things go sideways.

Yahoo groups runs freecycle, Yahoo owns Flikr.
That's likely where lots of the user time comes from.

I just looked.
Please tell me that is a troll hoax, are people *that* dumb? Seriously?

FWIW (one person does not a sample set make):
I use facebook ~ 10 to 20 min/week. Usually only 1 visit a week.
I use iGoogle about half an hour a day or more:
* /. RSS feed
* Comics RSS feed
* Stock widget
* Quotes of the day
* Bash.org latest quotes (WTF, no updates for a while)
* Web Hosting status RSS
* Analytics RSS
* Google Docs periodically.

I thought the same thing about the DRM part.
This is the only 'good' use I've seen yet. I particularly like that it is automatic return from loan, that I don't have to drive to the library to return the books.
-nB

Yeah, we need to teach robots how to make 2==1 and divide by zero before they can replace congress critters.

Often these drivers connect to registers in the hardware that are *not* public knowledge. In the case of WiFi and other "firmware" radios the driver often contains DSP code that would normally be in Si but is now in loadable firmware, thus the manufacturers want to keep that a secret.
-nB

I don't know if I think you're being overly sensitive or not.
Please understand I *do not* have the same experience as you and so am woefully uninformed about it. One of my gay friends has described me as the gayest obviously straight guy he knows (still don't know what that means...) so there is the frame of reference I'm coming from.

Anyway I have a question for you:
At my work we have a few transgender folks, some more feminine than others (one sports quite a shadow by the end of the day). I mostly avoid any discussion about them, mostly because of fear of lawsuit/HR/what have you. It's not gossip, so much as curiosity. What/how/????/when do you make the changeover in gender identification?
At one point my lunch group simply referred to the particular individual as a contraction of she-him (shim), not out of mean spirit, but for a genuine lack of understanding as to what to refer to this person as.

FFS that's not even a question is it. I guess I am curious, do you encounter more bigotry and shunning, or more simple curiosity in your daily life and how do you tell the difference between ill informed (like me) and malicious? I'm sure there is some blurring going on there.
-nB

We're discussing a study about facebook on /. WTF does logic have to do with it? ;)

:heh:
Sadly you can not choose family.
fully 3/4 of my friends on FB are family, and while most are sane normal people, it's easier to add the freaks than it is to not add them and deal with the fallout at thanksgiving and Christmas.

Did I mention my cousin tried claiming her cats as dependents to the IRS one year (she was not joking and really thought that was OK, because they depend on her)? We don't let her do her (or anyone else's for that matter) taxes anymore.

Because I'm at work.
turn off safe search in your prefs and see what happens.

On an aside:
We have a paranoid-strict content filter at work...
I turned off safe search and I think I just lit up IS's indicator panel like a Christmas tree :-)

That was fun. Tons of little "this item was blocked" pictures as images tried to come up...