Another celebrity name cybersquatting case--this time involving South Park hater Tom Cruise.
Quote:Scientologist Tom Cruise has taken the owner of TomCruise.com to domain name arbitrator WIPO to win it back.
The Hollywood star, and lead of recently released Mission Impossible III, is a bit slow off the mark - the domain was registered in November 1996, and other super-celebs have been going to WIPO for years trying to win back their namesake domains.
The domain owner is none other than the world's biggest cybersquatter, Jeff Burgar...
full article:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/09/...se_domain/
Update: Tom Cruise wins TomCruise.com case.
Quote:Tom Cruise has won his domain namesake, TomCruise.com, from notorious cybersquatter Jeff Burgar.
Burgar contested the complaint and paid for a three-person panel at domain name arbirtrator WIPO to decide the issue. In the end though, they decided for the movie star and against Burgar - who is a regular at WIPO judgments, having registered hundreds of famous peoples' name which he redirects to his Celebrity1000.com website...
full article:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/23/...otcom_win/
Full text of WIPO's decision:
http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/decision...-0560.html
I know Tom Cruise doesn't believe in taking meds, but he reallllllly should reconsider.
How many people has he sued this year? The short South Park hater's lawyers must be getting rich.
