General Discussions

**LeeD** · 07-26-2006, 10:40 AM

http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,....html?rssceleb

The cybersqautter loses this one....interesting articles though.

**Tran** · 07-26-2006, 12:18 PM

Ouch.. he only won brucesprintsteen(sp?) haha

**imported_aceshopper** · 07-26-2006, 01:31 PM

interesting how burgar owned and operated tomcruise.com since 1996. wow!!!

**Josh P** · 07-26-2006, 04:30 PM

That's funny. So, can anyone have their name TM'd then? That's interesting...

**jmolenski** · 07-30-2006, 09:32 AM

sure, anyone can,,, but you have to be someone for it to be worth it... not trying to dig, just pointing out the obvoius.

**Lpspider** · 07-30-2006, 02:38 PM

Personally, I'm split on this... I mean, I hate cybersquatters, but if the name was used in a non mass-traffic/spam generator way, I think it would have been fine (if that made sense).

**Karl89.co.uk** · 07-30-2006, 03:47 PM

It's about time cybersquatters started to lose their domains. Too many of the good domains aren't being used for the right reasons.

**Hoang** · 07-30-2006, 04:40 PM

Finally, this has been going on for awhile now. I heard about it since last year.

The other interesting one is gonna be the Nissan.com one.

**Hexation** · 07-30-2006, 05:06 PM

Good for Tom!

**brdcstr** · 08-01-2006, 12:58 AM

Surprising how many famous people don't actually know, or care, who uses their name for redirects/making money.

My niece is one of the most famous women athletes on the planet, and some guy bought her name in 2000 for commercial purposes(adsense, now). I've rtried to get her to reclaim it, but she just doesn't seem to care.

Last time I checked, there were over 100k searches per month for her. Cruise obviously didn't care until recently, as well.

Go figure.

**againes** · 08-03-2006, 01:00 PM

its like that easyjet guy stelios taking all the domains with easy in. I don't think its right.

**ltn1dr** · 08-03-2006, 05:32 PM

Meh, not sure what I think about this.

What if TomSmith.com is currrently is a porn site, and my name is Tom Smith and I don't want people to think that I am somehow affiliated?

Where is the line drawn, is it only because Cruise is famous?

I'm sure there's another Tom Cruise out there....

**tntcheats** · 08-03-2006, 07:05 PM

I don't know who I hate more, Tom Cruise or Cybersquatters

**imported_Edder** · 08-03-2006, 11:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ltn1dr

Meh, not sure what I think about this.

What if TomSmith.com is currrently is a porn site, and my name is Tom Smith and I don't want people to think that I am somehow affiliated?

Where is the line drawn, is it only because Cruise is famous?

I'm sure there's another Tom Cruise out there....

That's a good question. I'm curious to know WIPO's policy on such cases involving names.