>>>>>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.
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>>>>You're right...but everyone has their price for the URL rights. The "real" PETA may have just bought them out...I sure wish I had thought of buying up some of those popular URLs years ago :)
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>>>Me to :-) Hey, it's never to late. There's usually a new sex symbol, male or female, coming out of hollywood every year. I may never have to code again 8-0. Hmmmm, doubt it....
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>>>Cheers
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>>I think this practice should be illegal. There are companies out there buying up every imaginable domain, just waiting for the person who really needs it to speak up, so they can screw 'em. I find the practice disgusting.
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>I agree completely. But like the varying pornography on the internet laws, countries can try to control things in their own little corner of the world but it will be almost impossible to get agreement on worldwide scale.

Well, there is one organization in charge of Domains at any given time (is it still InterNic?) All it would take is for that organization to decide to do anything about it.

And, I think that there are already laws- only US bodies can reserve .com address. All other coutries' addresses are their 2 letter code. (.ca, .uk etc).