Jun. 1st, 2007

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Today I have had two hours' sleep and shown up to work for the first time in two weeks nevertheless. I shall be going home and going more or less straight to bed.

Tomorrow we get a trolley to do something with the huge dead fridge. Good thing we didn't find a home for the small ones ...

I have been cooped up at home for weeks, with one family outing last Sunday. I need to go out and party d00d. What's on Saturday night? Tending into Sunday is ENTIRELY ENCOURAGED.

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I just got asked someone's help with an interesting question, so I thought I'd ask you lot:

The person had a domain that was their first and last name — firstlast.com — which they were selling their artwork on. They were handing out business cards with the domain name and all — demonstrably trading under it.

The person accidentally let the domain expire, and domaindoorman.com swooped in and grabbed it. It's now a parked search portal.

Now — apparently a few other artists who'd had similar problems with people buying their name as a .com had won the domains back, based on the common-law trademark on their name used as not merely their name but their business. (Something about these being people selling stuff related to the person whose name it actually was.)

"So what I'm wondering is, since the domain is my name, is there any way at all that I can get it back under my control without paying huge amounts of money for court/lawyer fees?"

It's a .com and both parties are in the US — does the person go to WIPO first or last? Or what? Anyone actually done this or know anyone who's actually done this?

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