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Old 08-05-2004, 06:45 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Katie.com conflict heats up again

Several years ago, it got into various online news sites that Penguin Books had published a book about a young woman victimized by online predators, named katie.com. The problem was that they didn't actually own that domain, but a different woman also named Katie owned it, and was annoyed at all the unwanted publicity her domain was getting. After several years of nothing much happening in this dispute, it's heating up again, as a lawyer associated with the book author is apparently starting to harrass the domain owner to attempt to get her to turn over the domain, despite the fact that she had it first.

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Old 08-05-2004, 06:58 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Re: Katie.com conflict heats up again

That was a crazy situation.
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Old 08-05-2004, 07:02 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Re: Katie.com conflict heats up again

Thats a nice case of reverse domain name hijacking.
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Old 08-05-2004, 07:11 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Re: Katie.com conflict heats up again

wow, that's pretty crazy, what a weird situation...
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Re: Katie.com conflict heats up again

I guess the book author is now the predator he wrote about in the book?
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Old 08-06-2004, 09:06 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Re: Katie.com conflict heats up again

It looks like Penguin has given in and renamed the book:
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?s...1&tid=17&tid=6
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Re: Katie.com conflict heats up again

I am glad that they renamed the book instead of trying to push harder for the woman to turn over katie.com. That situation could have turned into something really bad.
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Glad everything worked out...
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Rock....thread was 4 yrs old??....lol
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Rock....thread was 4 yrs old??....lol
I know.
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Rock....thread was 4 yrs old??....lol

He's just finished the book...
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He's just finished the book...
No, I own the domain.
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No, I own the domain.
nice....
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No, I own the domain.
so are you trying to tell us something Justin... or do we all just refer to you as "Katie" now
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did you buy it or something..lol
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so are you trying to tell us something Justin... or do we all just refer to you as "Katie" now
Not really. Just wanted you to know msl.
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Nice name Rock
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No, I own the domain.
Very nice!

I thought there must be a connection.
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Nice name Rock
Thanks.

No video needed for this one.
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