Comments on: Is Sony BMG Cybersquatting Idol Domain Names? http://www.defamer.com.au/2008/09/is_sony_bmg_cybersquatting_idol_domain_names/ Celebrity Gossip and Pop Culture from Australia and Hollywood Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:08:06 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Toady http://www.defamer.com.au/2008/09/is_sony_bmg_cybersquatting_idol_domain_names/comment-page-1/#comment-1624 Toady Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:32:17 +0000 http://www.defamer.com.au/2008/09/is_sony_bmg_cybersquatting_idol_domain_names.html#comment-1624 <p>I can't remember who it was but someone a few years ago had the same name as a porn star... and the Telstra site pointed to the wrong (porn) address. Nice.</p> <p>Back to my point - Anyone who wants to be famous and doesn't already own ".com" is an idiot. </p> I can’t remember who it was but someone a few years ago had the same name as a porn star… and the Telstra site pointed to the wrong (porn) address. Nice.

Back to my point – Anyone who wants to be famous and doesn’t already own “.com” is an idiot.

]]> By: thomasr http://www.defamer.com.au/2008/09/is_sony_bmg_cybersquatting_idol_domain_names/comment-page-1/#comment-1623 thomasr Wed, 03 Sep 2008 06:07:06 +0000 http://www.defamer.com.au/2008/09/is_sony_bmg_cybersquatting_idol_domain_names.html#comment-1623 <p>It's only cyber squatting when you buy it without permission.</p> <p>You can bet your bottom dollar that somewhere in the fine print you have to sign that over as part of the deal to even appear on the show. Who is going to say no? (apart from the chiropractor guy- my new hero!)</p> <p>Sony have form in this regard- silverchair, when signed to murmur (sony subsid) deliberately made their main website chairpage.com as they did not own silverchair.com </p> <p>Thats how I would do it: wesleycarrwebsite.com or wescarrweb.com would be where I would set up my site were I young Wes.</p> <p>Tom</p> It’s only cyber squatting when you buy it without permission.

You can bet your bottom dollar that somewhere in the fine print you have to sign that over as part of the deal to even appear on the show. Who is going to say no? (apart from the chiropractor guy- my new hero!)

Sony have form in this regard- silverchair, when signed to murmur (sony subsid) deliberately made their main website chairpage.com as they did not own silverchair.com

Thats how I would do it: wesleycarrwebsite.com or wescarrweb.com would be where I would set up my site were I young Wes.

Tom

]]> By: SimianSays http://www.defamer.com.au/2008/09/is_sony_bmg_cybersquatting_idol_domain_names/comment-page-1/#comment-1622 SimianSays Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:24:04 +0000 http://www.defamer.com.au/2008/09/is_sony_bmg_cybersquatting_idol_domain_names.html#comment-1622 <p>I love this! Great detective work Robert and Clem!</p> I love this! Great detective work Robert and Clem!

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