Are domains property?
 

Yes or no?

yes

I'd say so

Are you sure?
Since when?
Since the sex.com lawsuit?

i guess then copying sites is burgulary

Yes and they are considered to be an address. So you could say that your address is rhinosthumbs.com and if you want to send me a fucking invoice, send it to my email box, fucker, and that would be just fine too.

No, that would be like saying copying your entire house on my plot of land is burglary.

No, domains are not property...

I know .ca domains are owned by CIRA, im sure .com's are owned by some governing organization as well.

A domain is leased, kind of like a phone number... it's "yours" but you never truly own it.

yes

What steveo said

Ask Gary Kremen, lol

i remember someone comparing them to phone numbers...
but i thought that nowadays they are perhaps already considered property... :helpme

yes they are.
since sex.com lawsuit.

www.erealestate.com enjoy

well, are u sure or just stating an opinion based on what someone somewehere said?

what should i enjoy?
it's webfathers site but i don't think i will find there an answer to my question

If you read his advice, and other info regarding domains you will get your answer and then some.

Officially domains belong to ICANN which you lease.

so the majority who replied "yes" is wrong?

And do you think that in some future it will change and they will be considered property?

i agree i think they are like phone numbers

The "no's" are wrong. thats why Kremin was able to sue network soloutions.

"Carreon became the first lawyer to establish that Internet domain names are property that can both be stolen by thieves and returned to their owners by court order. "

http://onlinemedialaw.com

Good :thumbsup

Like phone numbers! That's a good example.

hehe, if you can own it...its somethin

Yes, they are

Generally... no!

If you are speaking to some tax collectors - definately not.

If you are trying to make claims in court - yea!

But in real life.... na... as said above, least according to a rathole of lawyers at InterNic, they will claim they are "similar to phone numbers"...

But hell... cos they say so, don't mean a damned thing! :winkwink:

BTW... I actually had a tax investigator try and tell me they were like real estate and were an appreciating asset :winkwink:

That was before he was told he could pay the reg fees or fuck off - he chose to fuck off :-)

It all depends on who has an agenda - sounds like most things in life :glugglug

Yes, according to case law thanks to Gary's case they are.

:Graucho

Its been said already but the sex.com case proved that rather nicely.

what if i steal parts of your house and use them for my house

Still doesn't work for a web comparrison unless someone is hacking into somone else's site, taking code to put on their page while deleting it from the original.

A better example would be to build a restaurant that looks exactly like the one next door and serve the exact same menu.
(See how long you get away with selling mcnuggets:Graucho)

good point :glugglug