myspace.co.uk

[britishbulldog]

MySpace wasn’t dumb when it launched in the UK without securing Myspace.co.uk. It was registered in 1997 by a company in Stockport, near Manchester. But the fact that it has now won the right to use the domain after a decision by Nominet’s dispute resolution service is a lesson to anyone sitting on a URL which might become successful. The fact that Myspace.co.uk was originally used to offer email services and mini-websites to subscribers meant it had insulated itself from an action. But when owner TWS flipped its business to try and exploit MySpace’s popularity, sending visitors to parked web page with advertisements for social networking websites including MySpace, known as “kiting”, that’s when it lost the moral high-ground. The lesson to sites? Make your business model different to the giant who’s name you own and benefit from all those mis-typed URLs. It’s still kinda sleazy, but it works.

 

[katherine]

Now that's a short lesson and to the point

 

[nameadvertising.com]

Losing moral high ground does not justify annexing the name Myspace has no rights to. A warning to take down the parked page would suffice. Taking the domain away is an extreme decision and biased one.

I usually don't mean bad for anyone. But I can't wait for the demise of Myspace and companies such as these who use their corporate muscle to as I see it 'STEAL' what is not rightfully theirs.

 

[stock_post]

I can not understand how they could legal steal something they really don't deserve.

If some one copies my idea or use my domain name and they can get my domain at the end that is utter BS.

 

[domain newbie]

thats scary how they can take anything away, just regged all extensions of domain i'm going to develop..

 

[domaingenius]

Its back to the old adage, IP trumps Domain names. Nominets DRS has always been unfair in that it allows complainants to rely on TM laws when making a complaint but does not allow respondent to quote TM laws in reply, thus complainants can use a TM that was only obtained for a logo to seize a domain name .

DG

 

[stuartsdomains]

Once again the deep pockets of big business, bully another domain name into there selfish self rightious arrogant dirty mitts.