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[Dave O Connor]

Someone called John P. Looney said on Fri, May 12, 2000 at 11:14:59AM +0100:
> On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 01:07:31PM +0100, adam beecher mentioned:
> > I hate that. I have lots of dotCOM domains, but none of them are trademarks or
> > brandnames (as far as I'm aware) and I'll eventually find a use for them.
> > Registering trademarks and brandnames is just plain cybersquatting, and these
> > people should have the bloody things taken back off them.
> 
>  If you have a problem with someone owning a domain name, you can make a
> complaint to ICANN, and give them a few grand. It's been done before - I
> think someone registered elizabethhurley.com and it was a porn site, with
> a few piccies of her on it (and some modified ones, cut & paste head
> stuff). I think they transferred it to her control. Bertie could have done
> the same thing.
> 
egistrant:
TransNames.com, Inc. (BERTIEAHERN3-DOM)
   3033 Springmeadow Lane
   Trotwood, OH 45426
   US

   Domain Name: BERTIEAHERN.COM

   Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact, Billing Contact:
      Administration, Domains  (KS5838)  simonkap at AOL.COM
      TransNames.com
      3033 Springmeadow Lane
      Trotwood, OH 45426
      000-000-0000 (FAX) 000-000-0000

   Record last updated on 13-Mar-2000.
   Record expires on 13-Mar-2001.
   Record created on 13-Mar-2000.
   Database last updated on 10-May-2000 06:51:36 EDT.

   Domain servers in listed order:

   NS1.DOMAINS.COM              208.169.214.68
   NS2.DOMAINS.COM              208.169.214.25

/usr/ports root at weltall $


It would appear not. According to an article about it in today's times, bertie
is pretty puzzled about it too :)

	- DoC