May 9th, 2011 
Haley Nessler 
By Haley Nessler
Tim Dominick wants to make sure people don’t associate the closing of the Sacred Grounds coffee shop with a local coffee scandal. According to a February 2007 North Coast Journal article entitled Roasted, Dominick bought Bayside Roasters’ Internet domain name in 2005 and redirected the website to the Urban Dictionary definition of the word “asshole.” After Bayside’s owners took the issue to their attorney, Dominick redirected the website again — this time, to an American Civil Liberties Union page about First Amendment rights. In 2007, Bayside successfully sued Dominick and his wife for libel, and was awarded $37,000 in compensation.1
“I’m sure some people didn’t like it,” says Dominick, “but I was really surprised by the level of support from customers in the community. People walked up to me on the street and voiced their support.”
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Just to be clear, I was the only defendant in this lawsuit. My wife and Sacred Grounds were not party to the suit nor did they have anything to do with the purchase of and subsequent publishing of the Urban Dictionary and ACLU sites to baysideroasters.com.