Hi John,

I can probably safely state that PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) most likely lost their case. This is because there are no rights to url's. First person to register a new one wins. That's why some stars have multiple variations of their names as url's registered and others, who weren't as proactive are paying large sums of money to buy them off the people who did register them. This all started because of url's like www.helenhunt.com ( a personal favorite actress of mine) connecting to a porn site and the actor/actress could do nothing about it.

>Here's an aside you might enjoy, since you mentioned PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals).
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>When PETA went to put up a web-site, www.peta.org, they found out that the name was taken. A look at the original www.peta.org site revealed a group called:
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>PETA: People Eating Tasty Animals. The site had (has?) all sorts of recipes for eating game and some tongue-in-cheek recipes for protected animals.
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>The good PETA was not amused and took the inane PETA to court. I dunno what the outcome was.