By Nick Dean
Eagle Pass freshman David Hinojosa recently bought the rights for the domain name baylorsucks.com and created the site as a forum for students of anonymity Baylor Baylor discuss life.Hinojosa, a saxophone and international music major, said he bought the site after finding the domain name for sale for $ 27.
"Everyone can be bought, I just was the one who managed to buy it," Hinojosa said. "I just got curious one day and discover that the name was available."
The site is currently in the form of a bulletin board, and Baylor provides topics for visitors to post opinions and issues within each section. Some topics include the chapel, Baylor professors, religious classes, residence halls and Greek life.
Hinojosa said baylorsucks.com owned by Baylor.
"Baylor has own in the past," Director of Media Relations Lori Fogleman said. "The domain name registration had been obtained several years ago by a former student at Baylor who do not want to fall into the wrong hands. This alum had the rights to the domain name and gave Baylor.
Buy domain names has never been a Baylor follows, Fogleman said.
"Baylor is not the practice of buying domain names. In contrast, Baylor, like other universities, obtains control of the domain name of a person who has registered in bad faith" said Fogleman. "(Baylor does this) success using the arbitration procedures of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)."
Hinojosa said he thought the search for domain names available on Baylor after reading a story about John Stipe, a graduate of Baylor who bought domain names baylorbearssuck.com, baylorbears.biz, baylorbears.net baylorbears.tv and more than a year.
Stipe told The Lariat in March 2008, he guided the domain names on the official website of Texas A & M Aggies as a joke when he realized he lacked the funds for the use of sites for the community forums Baylor.
The university has responded by filing a lawsuit against Stipe with the National Arbitration Forum, which handles disputes concerning domain names of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. The National Arbitration Forum has requested that Stipe back the domain names to Baylor University to support the request that the URLs are quite similar to university sites operated by Internet users could easily be misled.
Hinojosa said he does not believe that Baylor will not follow the trial against him in regard to its website.
"I take this opportunity to own a website where people can express their thoughts. I do not just give it to them, no, "said Hinojosa. "I could see why Baylor me again, but if they really, really, he is concerned that they would have made sure their names do not expire."
Hinojosa said he likes Baylor and did not purchase the site in hopes of Baylor who want to buy it.
"I always hear people talk about things they dislike about the campus. I want them to know they can come to my site and say it, too, "said Hinojosa." It's cool to be the guy who owns the site where people can freely express their opinions. "
Regarding the litigation against Hinojosa is concerned, Fogleman said that Baylor is focusing on the positive and negative aspects of not worrying about strong against Baylor.
"You can not win in a game that never ends, which attempts to determine every possible variation of the Baylor name and the many extensions that can go with him." Fogleman said. "Our time and energy are devoted to maximizing the use of Baylor to say the name of the great history of Baylor. We have not spent much time trying to find places where people might say something Negative about Baylor.
At the time of writing this story, Hinojosa said he had not been contacted by anyone from the abandonment or removal of its website, but it would still be updating the site.
"I am only a first year and I want to keep updating while I am (at Baylor)," Hinojosa said.
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