JRR Tolkien: Return Of The Domain Name

Malfourmed writes "Reuters reports that the estate of J.R.R. Tolkien won a cybersquatting case against Alberta Hot Rods, a Canadian-based operator which registered jrrtolkien.com and linked it to its commercial celebrity Web site. The group - which has already lost domain name cases brought by actors Pierce Brosnan and Pamela Anderson, and author Michael Crichton - was found to have no legitimate rights, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) said in a ruling."

Comments

Re:it's what you do with the domain that counts

[Aardpig]

A friend of mine actually had the domain AMERICAONLINE.COM for many years. He offered to sell it to AOL and they blew him off and expressed no interest.

And no wonder. Why would Assholes Online have any interest in AMERICAONLINE.COM?

bullshit artists are at it again

[maxpublic]

Evil people, stealing the names of those worshipped by socially-challenged geeks and using them for profit! What horrors!

Quick! Someone *pass a law* to prevent this tragedy!

Whining little gits. No one has a 'right' to a domain name; it's first-come first-serve, and fuck the hindmost. You lose out, you lose out - end of story. Oh, wait, I forgot - it's a different kettle of fish if someone famous is involved. Wouldn't matter for dick if *my* name was 'stolen' by some cybersquatting company, but since it's Tolkien, the object of fan worship, why *he* gets special treatment!

Even after he's dead!

Yeah, pass a law, you freakin' hypocrites. Next week you'll be back to bitching and moaning over how powerful the government is becoming, doing your best to inflict selective amnesia on yourself to avoid facing up to the fact that you are just as responsible for the situation as everyone else out there. Either that, or desperately trying to justify why *your* laws are good, and those you object to are bad.

Max