php.org and www.motherboards.com

Yesterday, to my surprise, I found out that www.php.org is alive, and is being forwarded to www.motherboards.com. Beforehand, the domain was owned by Premier Health Partners, but was never used. www.motherboards.com is using PHP extensively, but other than that, I couldn't figure out any relationship between php.org and this site. In the last 24 hours, I've been in contact with Greg Ricks, the administrative and technical contact for this domain. I was trying to exploit the possibility of receiving the php.org to our hands. The bottom line is this: He's willing to "redirect all of the www.php.org traffic to us, in exchange for banners on the PHP network". I discussed this with him, and told him we could probably live with a predefined period of a banner ad at the bottom of the PHP network, a-la the 'Hosted By' banners that we currently have. I told him, though, that it'd be crucial to receive the actual domain to our control, since if php.org becomes known as the home of PHP (*), we can't be held hostage by someone who may make www.php.org point someplace else at will. I tried to convince him to hand over the domain, in exchange for these banners (gave him some www.php.net stats, which are quite impressive) and even some sum of money, but he declined. He's completely unwilling to sell/give the domain. Does anybody know if we have any options to go about this? Legal perhaps? We can obviously send an army of furious people down his mailbox, but I'm not sure if it'll be of any use (it might). Bad publicity can suck pretty much, especially when he's being extremely ungrateful, considering his entire site is PHP based. Perhaps we can use clause 3 of the license here? Any lawyers on board? :) Comments welcome, Zeev (*) This will happen very quickly IMHO, I'm pretty sure anybody who looks for PHP and doesn't *know* where it is, would look for it at php.org. By the way, he claims that he plans to do something with that domain in the future, and that it's only temporarily pointing at www.motherboards.com. I'm not sure if he's right or not, but one thing is for sure - he's definitely gettings tons of hits from people who are looking for PHP (the fact 'PHP' appears as the default search string in case you access motherboards.com through www.php.org is also quite interesting). -- Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> CTO, Zend Technologies Ltd. http://www.zend.com/