December 23, 2000

     According to a recent update over at Anime News Network another company might have cleverly obtained the rights to the popular site's domain name. For now the original owner Brian Real wants you to not visit Toriyama.org. The company who bought the domain is currently trying to make money off of it by showing advertising to the visitors. So I encourage all our visitors to listen to him and not make the problem worse by visiting.

     Toriyama.org is a fan site with a large database filled with info on the creator of Dragon Ball as well as other manga and anime. The site has had previous problems and was down for a while due to other hosting related problems. Now it has to deal with another major problem. One member of the original staff has already offered to pay $375 dollars to have it back but the company Domainsource.com decided to keep it possibly to make more money off of the ads.

     The original owners can take some legal actions. Domainsource.com obviously used Registrars.com according to a WHOIS lookup over at Network Solutions. The data found their also included some false information on Domainsource.com's part. This breached Registrars.com's agreement possibly giving the original owners some legal options to work with.

For more information you can visit Anime News Network's article on this issue.

-Kaio-sama