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@ausgroucho @teadrinker Crazy that someone who once dragged her own children through the courts expected to snag Hancock.com.au on the cheap. Months of legal threats just to avoid paying market value — she’s hoarding every dollar like it’s coming with her to the afterlife.

(The site is paywalled- here’s a quick summary):

Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting spent more than a year trying to buy the domain Hancock.com.au from its owner, Alan Gladman, before taking the dispute to the World Intellectual Property Organisation, where the company not only lost but was also found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking; the tribunal ruled that Gladman, who owns hundreds of surname‑based domains, had a legitimate business use for the site, rejecting Hancock Prospecting’s claims of bad‑faith registration after the company’s low five‑figure purchase offers were refused.

#greed #ginarinehart