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What's the crack with registering a .com or .co.uk with a famous person name before the .com or .co.uk. Can that person take the website off you or do they have to pay £££'s to reclaim it.

This is just general office discussion were having

im sure they would have to pay as you would own the rights

people were doing this a few years ago..like with madonna.com ..they filled with porn and madonna had to pay a fare few million to buy the name of the owner

Cheers Pete

Been to Argos & bought a table yet

if the name is relevant to the company/business and has nothing of relevance to you then they CAN and WILL take it from u basically.........especially the bigger companies who wud pound u with lawsuits

apparently the table has been replaced, i just owe the money

DISCO WAS MEANT TO BE PUMPED UP & LOOKING FOR ACTION!!!!

So Martin & Scruf tell me

Any examples Brian?

you buying my name up before i become famous then spence?

not off top of my head mate but it has happened in the past - it was a buzz a few years ago - cybersquatters (ppl buying domains n keeping em till they cud cash in) were all over.

some laws changed tho to allow big companies to have rights on this kinda thing - so it kinda died off.

i suppose, maybe an example of this, in a different sorta way is Lindows - M$ went off it with them and hit them with sooooooooo many law suits to change their name - they had no choice but to change to Linspire - they simply cudnt afford to defent themselves against the might of mr gates!

What if you registered www.davepearceisafatandtalentlessgormless****.com ? Could he still sue? I mean, his name isn't Dave Pearceisafatandtalentlessgormless****, and the site could have nice stuff about him.

Or you could register www.ibetdavepearcetriestosuemeaboutthiswebaddressbecausehesafatandtalentlessgormless****.com .

What about www.fatandtalentlessgormless****.com, and the site being about Dave Pearce? Could he sue then?

Btw, I'm just using Dave Pearce as an example...

also, some domain registration companies when u sign up with them, make u agree to not register a name thats a known trademark/registered company that u don't own.

it all kicked off in the early years of the t'internet... i heard about the bloke who owned the rights to banks.com or something - the big banks got together and paid a huge wack for the rights. this was 10 years ago b4 all the legislation came in...