Jay Leno gets his URL from Cyber Squatters!!!

**SBJ** · 07-03-2009, 03:24 PM

well good for jay

**AAB** · 07-03-2009, 03:39 PM

Originally posted by F-U-Jimmy

failed to demonstrate he had a legitimate reason for registering the address

WTF? You need a legitimate reason to register a domain name? I thought it sounded cool, it was available and I thought it would be a good investment - that's about what my "legitimate reasons" for registering a domain name are.

**Rangermoore** · 07-03-2009, 03:44 PM

Thats bullshit..If I want to register a domain and its avalable why should I prove a "Legitimate reason" to do it...I have plenty of domain names that I am sitting on...So I say fuck Jay and the U.N.'s World Intellectual Property Organization..

**CYF** · 07-03-2009, 03:52 PM

Originally posted by Rangermoore

Thats bullshit..If I want to register a domain and its avalable why should I prove a "Legitimate reason" to do it...I have plenty of domain names that I am sitting on...So I say fuck Jay and the U.N.'s World Intellectual Property Organization..

Register all the domains you want. He won it because it's a registered copyright, which is the definition of cybersquatting.

**Rangermoore** · 07-03-2009, 03:54 PM

Originally posted by CYF

Register all the domains you want. He won it because it's a registered copyright, which is the definition of cybersquatting.

Cool..I can dig that then..

**SBJ** · 07-03-2009, 03:56 PM

Originally posted by Rangermoore

Thats bullshit..If I want to register a domain and its avalable why should I prove a "Legitimate reason" to do it...I have plenty of domain names that I am sitting on...So I say fuck Jay and the U.N.'s World Intellectual Property Organization..

why should you or anyone be allowed to buy a trademarked name? I could see if it was just part of the name like TheJayShow.com and the guys name was Jay but to think you should be able to buy a trademarked name like TheJayLenoShow.com is crazy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersquatting

Cybersquatting (also known as domain squatting), according to the United States federal law known as the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, is registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name with bad faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else. The cybersquatter then offers to sell the domain to the person or company who owns a trademark contained within the name at an inflated price.....

**XPays** · 07-03-2009, 04:00 PM

this is a slam dunk case - if dude had owned jayleno.com and sent the traffic to his real estate biz the outcome would have been more difficult to predict.

**sortie** · 07-03-2009, 04:12 PM

Try to be unique and that alone will help avoid the issue.

**sortie** · 07-03-2009, 04:17 PM

Originally posted by XPays

this is a slam dunk case - if dude had owned jayleno.com and sent the traffic to his real estate biz the outcome would have been more difficult to predict.

Probably, but I wonder about that sometimes.
I mean, Jay Leno the person built that name.
I don't think I can put the name on a line of clothing and sell it, so why
should I be able to put the name on a website?

**Slappin Fish** · 07-03-2009, 09:07 PM

Originally posted by CYF

Register all the domains you want. He won it because it's a registered copyright, which is the definition of cybersquatting.

That is far from being the definition of cybersquatting....

Just about anything is trademarked these days, it doesn't give you automatic rights over the domain.

It has to be proven the registrant had prior knowledge of the trademark and registered the domain in bad faith/with intent to profit from the trademark. Clearly this guy was cybersquatting, but in different circumstances the trademark alone wouldn't be enough...

**Iron Fist** · 07-03-2009, 10:30 PM

Register anything with a registered trademark and your throwing your money away, because all they gotta do is submit a complaint and show proof of trademark and the domain is theirs. It's that simple.

Jay Leno gets his URL from Cyber Squatters!!!

Jay Leno gets his URL from Cyber Squatters!!!

Comment

Comment

Comment

Comment

Comment

Comment

Comment

Comment

Comment

Comment

Comment