August 05, 2004
Damned Penguins
In my books when you register a domain, that domain becomes your property, until such time as the registration expires, or you sell it/give it to another party.
Such is not the case with Katie Jones, if you haven't heard the story yet, go to her site, it's worth the read.
If you wrote a book with a phone number in it that connected to an actual person, and told a story about how the person at that number was a molester/murderer/drug dealer/bad guy or had been sexually assaulted. Subsequently the person at the other end of the scenario received harassing, or unending phone calls regarding the book. YOU WOULD BE SUED.
Why is this not the same as titling a book a domain name that you do not own, and then ignoring any requests from the owner to change it. AND THEN proceed to attempt to pressure the owner of the domain to give it up. The excuse made is the domain was not "trademarked", in other words the personal web domains are there for the easy takeover of corporations on whim of a marketing team.
Posted by Oorgo at August 5, 2004 11:15 AM|
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