FACTS ASSERTED BY THE COMPLAINANT AND NOT CONTESTED BY THE RESPONDENT:
Volunteer Activists Institute (VA) is a non-profit, non-governmental, non-political and independent institute, whose primary aim is capacity building among activists and civil society organizations; facilitation of information exchange among civil society activists, and advocacy and expansion of democracy, human rights and peace building within Iranian society and communities in the MENA region.
The Complainant used to own the domain names volunteeractivists.org, volunteeractivists.com, and volunteeractivists.net, these domain names served as part of the online presence of Complainant ´s institute, however, couple of years ago, previous staff who were in charge of the domains took over the domain names and demanded absurd amounts of money to return them. As a non-profit, the Complainant did not have such requested funds, and did not know of any solution to this situation, including the domain dispute process, so it moved to a new domain name, volunteeractivists.nl.
The disputed domain names still show old websites of the Complainant, with outdated information, and the Complainant has absolutely no control over the websites or domain names. The Complainant fears that having these domain names out of its control, may be used to defame Complainant´s institute.
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