According to WHOIS record, SaveThePlanetProtest.com was first registered on January 7, 2008 under registrant James Lee.[1] The domain was registered with a private registration service, which hid the registrant’s information. The WHOIS record only displayed a PO Box address located in Burnaby, Canada, in the contact info.
The registrant James Lee, a Korean-American, was an environmental protester. On September 1, 2010, he entered the Discovery Communications headquarters building in Silver Spring, Maryland, with a gun and several bombs strapped to his body and took three hostages.[2]
Lee made his manifesto on his website SaveThePlanetProtest.com with several demands, including "daily programs based on Daniel Quinn's Ishmael in game show formats broadcasted through Discovery Channel." The manifesto expressed Lee’s disapproval of Discovery Channel promoting global overpopulation. After nearly a four-hour standoff, he was shot and killed by police, and the three hostages were immediately freed.[3]
The website SaveThePlanetProtest.com was hosted by Doteasy Technology Inc.. The spokesman of this Canadian web hosting firm announced that they had provided information to Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) for further investigation. RCMP Insp. Tim Shields stated that the RCMP was aware of the website situation and was in touch with US law enforcement officials in the investigation.[4]