Fun Friday afternoon topic: domain name disputes

[Roger Horne]

On Friday 05 February 2010, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote:

> If it would be a co.uk domain, she could probably go to a UK court.  

Nominet has a dispute service. See, eg, http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/DRS/ . 

> Since 
> this is a .com domain, I think any UK judge will quickly dismiss on the
> grounds that it is an American domain, 
> so that she should go to court in 
> the U.S. of A.  And *that* will prove to become very costly very quickly
> indeed.

Agreed.


Roger