How to defend the rights to your own site?

Question

Domain name market

The story is like this. In 2008, I created a site - a small repository of old educational materials (courses, labs, etc.), on which I also tested my web programming skills. The problem was that the domain was registered on a reseller, which I hosted (I bought into cheap hosting prices, at first not realizing that the hoster had registered the domain for himself, he was stupid). I paid him once a year for an extension, everything was fine, but then he disappeared. At first I was a little upset - suddenly the domain will be intercepted. But then I thought: who the hell needs him, he has TIC = 0, Google rank is also 0, and applied to the registrar for the vacant domain and began to wait. But what a surprise it was that the domain was intercepted (the registrar sent a sad letter that, they say, excuse me, someone was faster). Not only that: the site was copied and posted to the same old address.
Is it possible in this case to prove that the site belongs to me?

Answer 1

Another option is to sue the new owner. The maximum that he will be will be forced to remove your content and pay legal costs. It is impossible to get the domain back (in your case).
Another option is to buy the site from the new owner and be careful in the future.
The third option (I like it the most) - spit on everything, do it from scratch and 100 times better.

Answer 2

Don't hold on to the old, move on.

Answer 3

Here is a topic about how my domain was stolen from me, and I stole it back .
Only in your case everything is much worse, I would try to write to the registrar with an explanation of the situation, only he can help you, although it seems to me that this will be ineffective. Another way is an attempt to defend your copyright through the courts, but it will be costly and no one knows how it will end.
Here the situation is debatable, on the one hand, the new buyer of the domain bought it, but this did not give him the right to pull content from the archives and publish it on the site. I think he bought into the index and the fact that the domain is trusted.

Answer 4

I'm not strong in this matter, but POSSIBLE, if you register copyright, you can run into it. And he will be forced to change the design. Find the authors of the term papers and the lab, if you studied with them, and also, as it were, ask to be deleted. But the domain can't be returned.
Let someone adequate and competent and knowledgeable in this matter now say whether I am right.

Answer 5

Some time ago I published an article on this topic
habrahabr.ru/blogs/copyright/99224/
This is a widespread practice.
It is pointless to deal with the hoster of the new "owner" of the domain and site, from a legal point of view, the domain was bought legally, and the copyright for the content is not confirmed - from the point of view of the law, he has no right to do anything.
It also makes no sense to contact the registrar for the same reason - the new "owner" bought the domain legally. The fact that the domain belonged to you once does not mean anything. Moreover, in fact, he did not belong to you.
It is worth contacting the new “owner” and offering to buy the domain. Actually, sites are “taken away” in this way with two goals - to earn extra money on advertising from the site and, possibly, on the sale of the domain.
If it is so important, look for a good lawyer and go to court. The only way.
And so - open uk-vozrogdenie.ru/ - the "raiser of the dead" even said hello to me after the publication of the article.