According to the Associated Press’s report, “the royal palace condemns vigorously all persons usurping (the King’s name) for their personal use or to slander the sovereign.†There are 4 websites that use the name of the King as following: www.norodomsihamoni.com; www.norodomsihamoni.info; www.norodomsihamoni.net; www.norodomsihamoni.gov.
The official website of the King Norodom Sihanmoni is www.norodomsihamoni.org
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In this particular case, it is obvious the owner of the domain (the .com) is using it for profit (parked at a PPC page), rather than slander. However, it can be misconstrued as slander, because the auto optimized link showed gambling and dating.
The “site” is not really a site per say, but a parked page, which uses computer optimization to shell out affiliate links. The best solution, would be to buy out the domain. I am sure the owner would probably sell it for a couple grand. Another option is to use ICANN to persue a UDRP (Uniform domain dispute resolution policy) case. In such event, the plaintiff must convince the court that the domain name was used in “bad faith”.