Re: Domain name ownership question...
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Jul 22nd, 2008, 12:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Jonleehacker
Register all the rest of the extensions and then do as you mentioned.
If they threaten you with keeping her name, threaten back with publicizing their threat.
Hopefully they will see how silly they are being and "let go" since there is very little for them in keeping the domain once she is gone.
If it doesn't work out, they will certainly lose a court battle for ownership of the name:
- it has been tried many times to register someone else's name and the courts will always give it back to the rightful owner, the only exception is if the current owner has a legitimate reason (one of the only valid ones being that it is also their name.)
Don't get too hung up on it. The domain name in this case (the business of her career) is not a determining factor.
It is possible to get any site to rank well in Google when someone searches on her name, and that is much more important than owning her exact name.
my 2 cents, I'd certainly call a domain name lawyer and get a real opinion.
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Sweet...thanks! It's not a huge deal. This guy just uses this at every chance he gets and it would be nice to shoot an arguement back at him with some proof that it's not a real bargining chip. He's a decent guy and I can't see this being an issue legally, but he's just very arrogant about things without anything to back it up. I've also looked at the Keithurban.com case and there's a lot of stuff in that case that would give us the upper hand if it went to blows. Using the name with the intentions of causing confusion that the artist endorses/works with the label.