Comments on: Can someone be forced to hand over a domain they are wasting?

By: Sam

Sam — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 23:55:03 +0000

Imagine this: Tomorrow morning you decide you need to get some food. You go down to the local grocery store and find that there is no more food. Where is all the food, you ask? Some rich guy moved into town and purchased all the food for himself. Why? He’s not eating it or using it in some other way. He just wants to own all the food so he can sell it to you at double or triple the price of the grocery store.

That’s why this guy wants to force him to give up his domain.

Anyway, I think if you can find some false information on his WHOIS record he can get his domain revoked. Not sure though. Check it out.

By: Cassy

Cassy — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:23:36 +0000

Check out on the internet when it expires, once it comes to the day it expires, register it immediately. That’s my suggestion.

By: Glen A

Glen A — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:36:02 +0000

Very strange that you think having an under construction image up is not using the domain – it’s your perspective being pushed here. I don’t think what the owner wants to or is doing with the site is anyones business but his/hers. You really need to just offer them some cash and hope they accept.
In saying that is you have a registered company with the same name and can prove that usage of the domain name is causing your goodwill harm you can take them to court and have a forced change of ownership. I should know it’s happening to me right now :(

By: Dawn

Dawn — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 01:45:32 +0000

Hi
my daughter is a singing artist and I tried to register a domain for her earlier on and both the .com and .uk with her name in front has been taken, when I checked to see who by it is registered to a musician who offered her work recently (that could have made his music big in the industry) but she declined as she writes her own music anyhow.. so to spite us he has purchased both main url’s I would have used.. is there anything I can do about it? apart from find another name of course but this is just spiteful and ‘weird’

thankyou..

By: Gaz

Gaz — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 02:03:48 +0000

I wish I had thought to buy the google name, I’d be rich!
Of course, I now know what google is, to google something.
It’s now a household name and may be in websters.
My point is, come up with somthing new, you don’t need to worry about competition, he’s not doing anything with it.

By: Gaz

Gaz — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 01:26:23 +0000

Everyone has their price, I have some domains that I hope will be worth some bucks when all the dot com names are used up. Would I give them up because you cryed until I did? I don’t think so!
Give the guy a fair offer.

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 27 May 2008 16:29:00 +0000

There is no way for you to know WHAT the guy may or may not be doing with his domain. He might be using it as a mail-only domain. He might be doing top-secret stuff with it that only those in-the-know can see, while everyone else sees the under-construction page. Regardless, I agree with most people that it’s wrong to try and take it from him.

I also think it’s wrong for corporations to bully people out of domains that they registered for their own purposes, under the pretext that they could cause copyright confusion and dilute their brand. I’ve been bullied out of a domain in the past that had very little to do with the company’s brand name, just because I didn’t think it was worth paying lawyers to defend.

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:45:31 +0000

Then trademark your business name.

The existing owner of the domain name will be in violation of a trademark act and you could commence a proceeding.

And since no other business name is already registered that reflects the domain name in the URI, your case is as good as gold.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 20 May 2008 03:55:45 +0000

If the guy doesn’t want give up the domain name, who are you to force him to? If he paid for it then it belongs to him. The man that lives across the street from me has a cherry red 68 Chevy SS…. In the five years I have lived here I have never seen him drive it. In fact it never leaves the garage. I would love to have the car. Does that mean I have the right to force him to hand it over to me? Of course not. Same thing just on a different level.

No, you should NOT be able to force the issue…….accept the fact and move on.

By the way I have several domains for sale…….lol

Eric

By: Grego

Grego — Mon, 19 May 2008 14:05:26 +0000

Sure you could use something else, but I agree that holding and not using this and all the other domains like that is plain greedy and stupid. It is annoying looking for a relevant, simple and easy for family to remember domain that is not available because some greedy idiot is sitting on it. I have often tried dozens of variations with no success.

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 17 May 2008 21:47:55 +0000

I have to say, Mark, that you’re coming across like some spoiled child that want’s anothers toy. It’s not your toy. It’s his/hers. It can sit in the closet for years, but it’s still his/hers. Go find another toy to play with.

Don’t want to seem harsh, but you’re better then this I think.

Peace.

By: Seamus

Seamus — Sat, 17 May 2008 19:55:32 +0000

It’s his domain, get over it. And if you can, get over yourself as well.

“The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”