U.N. you silly rascals

[RedFury]

In a ruling by a United Nations panel, Pierce Brosnan won
> ownership of the Internet name www.piercebrosnan.com after
> the current owner of the name was found to have no rights
> or interests to it. The panel also ruled the current owner
> was using the site in bad faith..........

And we wonder why they didn't help us out when it came to Iraq

[daveleau]

You know...I don't understand this way of thinking. I'd think the person who claimed it first would be the owner regardless of their tie to the name they bought.

[SpookyEddy]

The idea is to stop people "cyber-squatting". For example I buy every domain name I can think of that relates to your company and then extort a massive amount of money from you for them. There are a wide variety of different scams, such as buying a domain name that is close enough to yours to be a common typo and then pointing it to a porn site, but you get the general idea.

I believe the US has just introduced new legislation to deal with issues of a similar nature. No idea what the Iraq relevance is unless there is a proliferation of cyber-squatters in the middle east.

Regards

ed