LowVoltage, the hacker who was last month threatened with legal action by Lotto organiser Uthingo over his "National Robbery" site, this week paid the renewal fee for the Uthingo domain which was overdue.
In a letter to the company, LowVoltage said: "In the interests of preserving your connectivity, [I] took the approach of paying the renewal fee on your behalf."
LowVoltage says that while on the .co.za registry site earlier this week, he noticed that the Uthingo.co.za domain renewal fee was overdue and faced suspension, and he decided to pay the R50 fee on the company`s behalf.
In his letter he writes that he understands "that an organisation such as yours may not have the extravagant budget to spend on intangible items such as domain names and so I do not expect a refund of the amount of R50 which I paid on your behalf. I do, however, request that should funds for the domain renewal become available, you would donate the amount owing to myself, on my behalf, to the Soweto Hospice."
Last month, Uthingo issued LowVoltage with a cease and desist letter for a section on local hacker site 2600 that called the National Lottery the "national robbery" and referred to the phrase "Tata ma change, Tata ma f***-all".
Uthingo lawyers contacted him ordering him to remove the pages in terms of trademark infringement. LowVoltage says he has not received any further communication from Uthingo on the issue.
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