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Springsteen Can't Get No Satisfaction

Posted by michael on Tuesday February 13, 2001 @07:14AM from the justice-is-blindfolded dept.

Johnathon Walls writes "Speaking of totally arbitrary decisions by WIPO, they recently refused to award Bruce Springsteen the URL brucespringsteen.com. It is currently run by a fan site. According to the tribunal "Jeff Burgar (the current owner) had demonstrated he had some rights or legitimate interest in the Web address name" and that Springsteen "failed to show the name was registered and used in bad faith, noting Springsteen had no evidence that Burgar ever tried to sell the name"."

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Note to self by Anoriymous+Coward · 2001-02-13 03:36 · Score: 3

If ever sued over any of my domains make sure I have documentary evidence of refusal to sell when approached.

I wonder if there is a business model here? For $10 I will send you a letter asking if you will sell your domain name, and I will keep the reply you send me saying "No," in case you are ever sued.