The controversy centers on a Greek belly dancer and her former employment, Greek Restaurant Taverna Opa and its owner Peter Tsialiamanis.

The Argentinian belly dancer, Aisha Ismail was the first belly dancer at the Hollywood Greek restaurant. Interestingly though, Ismail was also a part-time computer programmer. She purchased the domain name ‘tavernaopa.com’ and when approached; she refused to sell it to the restaurant, even when offered $5,000 she rejected the offer, instead demanding $25,000.

Turning down the $5,000 turned out to be a poor choice for Ismail because in 2008, Taverna Opa sued Ismail for cybersquatting on its stolen domain name. After rejecting Tsialiamanis’s offer, she began to advertise for her new place of employment, the Greek Seafood Restaurant Milos, on tavernaopa.com.;

I will like to invite you to the new restaurant ‘Milos’ best and freshest seafood.”

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