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Michael Rhys and Michael Douglas, both of Jamaica Plain are named as the co-defendants in the suit, which was filed Monday in the U.S. District Court in Boston.
Harvard alleges that "Rhys and Douglas" registered 65 Internet names using the words "Harvard" and "Radcliffe," with the intention of later selling them to Harvard for a profit.
A web domain called "Virtualharvard.com" is just one of the dozens of University-related names "Rhys and Douglas" own, and is for sale from a company called Web-Pro.com., according to a report in the Boston Globe.
Donin said that the legal definitions of blackmail and extortion are not correct characterizations of what "Rhys and Douglas" did, though the lawyer confirmed that the University had been solicited about buying the web site names.
According to the Globe, had "Rhys and Douglas" succeeded in selling the names to Harvard at their desired price, they would have raked in nearly $325,000 in profit.