Heavy Metal Domain Dispute over Pantera.com

Pantera logoThe first heavy metal domain dispute I’m aware of. There are reports “the surviving members of Pantera are involved in a legal battle with their former webmaster over” Pantera.com. Pantera.com was once the band’s official web site, but since February 2003 the official web site has been located at www.officialpantera.com.

“According to the Justia.com legal portal, which maintains a database of Federal District Court filings and dockets, Pantera.com’s webmaster filed a lawsuit in the Michigan Western District Court on August 2, 2007 against the Pantera Partnership (consisting of Vincent Paul Abbott, Philip Hansen Anselmo, Rex Robert Brown, and the estate of Darell Lance [”Dimebag Darrell”] Abbott) over the domain, which has apparently been registered to Alfenas since 1998. The Pantera Partnership, meanwhile, filed a suit of their own in the Michigan Eastern District Court against Alfenas (who resides in Michigan) the very next day, August 3, 2007.”