This is a little tricky to talk about without specifically mentioning my domain name, but I'll try.
I have a popular website that's about to get significantly more popular, because I'm about to publish a book, go on book tours, etc.
There's a *much* more popular website that's been around since the beginning of the web, and part of my domain name includes their domain name (for example, suppose their domain was Narnia.com, and my domain was AdventuresinNarnia.com). We're in the same general market (say Narnia.com sold video games, and I reviewed video games).
What legal risk am I subjecting myself to, particularly if I have absolutely no desire/intent to sell my domain name? I have a PR4 site and I don't want to move, but I don't want to put links to my website in a published book and then get forced to move later.
posted by anonymoose
on Mar 21, 2013 -
11 answers
I want to offer to handle a few acquaintances' domain management and some basic social media presence stuff, as they've offered to pay me to do it. Can I just do things in my name and have them pay me directly? I am a complete newbie to being paid for this, and I just want to see if I should look into anything.
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posted by dubadubowbow
on Sep 12, 2012 -
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Any recommendations for .hk, .tw, .ae domain registrars? It looks like the big registrars (network solutions, go daddy, etc.) don't offer these country domains.
posted by rdurbin
on Apr 27, 2012 -
1 answer
I have two domain names and a Gmail account, and I'm looking for the best way to combine them all so all my email ends up in one place.
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posted by nowonmai
on Mar 8, 2012 -
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I have a profile hosted by a social media site that I would like to customize with a personal domain. The directions involve me changing my domain's A record to a certain IP, but my IT guy says that doing so will screw up the other domains that are hosted in my family's all-inclusive account. Why?
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posted by These Birds of a Feather
on Jan 31, 2012 -
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I've been asked to research the viability of the launch of a new top-level domain (TLD) parallel to dot-com. Assuming the prospective domain owner wishes not to reduplicate the internet as it exists now merely with another extension, I'd like to ask: Let's say you could take what you know about how the internet works (indexing, monetization, traffic, web-mastering but also crowdsourcing, social networking, political organizing, personal publishing, microfunding, etc.) and for reasons purely fictional, the existing system was scrapped and being re-built from scratch, what would you do with that opportunity if you had it?
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posted by brynnwood
on Dec 26, 2011 -
9 answers
What is the best service a US-based person can use to register an international domain (like .cn, .kr, and .jp?)
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posted by djedery
on Dec 6, 2011 -
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I would like to register some .com or .org domains with non-ascii unicode characters in the domain names. Can I do this as a US citizen? What registrar should I use?
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posted by alms
on May 3, 2011 -
4 answers
I plan to talk to a lawyer about this but right now, I'm doing my research and would like to reach out to the MeFi community for advice.
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posted by wesker
on Mar 27, 2011 -
19 answers
Where should I register my .rs domain, so I don't get ripped off?
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posted by eduke
on Feb 12, 2011 -
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So someone has offered to buy a set of com/org/net domains from me. I have no real objections to selling, and my only concerns really are being sure that I get the money (and am not being scammed) and that the buyer in't an agent of a multinational corporation buying for a song to use for the next Amazon.com/google.com/flooz.com. What are my next steps?
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posted by sherman
on Jan 7, 2011 -
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Domain Name transfer question: A friend has asked me to help move her website from an old Earthlink hosting account to a new, cheaper hosting option. Will I need to transfer the domain to a new registrar as well? Details below.
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posted by Ike_Arumba
on Dec 11, 2010 -
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WordPressFilter: Is there a way to host the public site on one domain (bar.example.com) and the admin interface on another (foo.example.com/bar)? Some serious Apache/WP wizardry needed.
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posted by sbutler
on Nov 12, 2010 -
5 answers
How can someone find a domain I own from another domain I own, if I serve the content from domain B as an addon domain on domain A? Should I just buy two hosting accounts?
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posted by winna
on Oct 24, 2010 -
5 answers
Does anyone know a sure-way to get a domain name back? Or a service that really works for getting it back at a reasonable price?
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posted by absolutshrk
on Oct 13, 2010 -
7 answers
The new ".co" domain suffix—is it hype, or is it as big as everyone is making it out to be?
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posted by Mike Mongo
on Jul 28, 2010 -
24 answers
I'm considering jumping ship from GoDaddy to a registrar that sucks less. The catch: I have over 40 domains. Can you recommend a registrar that's especially good at handling bulk transfers? It would be especially cool if they also offer bulk pricing.
posted by signalnine
on May 9, 2010 -
20 answers
Domain Name market research: I own the domain nogbutter.com. I want to use it for a company some friends and I want to start. Does "nogbutter" have an offensive ring to it?
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posted by Ezrie
on Feb 22, 2010 -
57 answers
Can anyone recommend a South African registrar that provides DNS management for .co.za domains?
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posted by Hartster
on Sep 23, 2009 -
3 answers
Domains, Email Addresses, and The Drop: Following an earlier question on MeFi, I'd quite like a unique professional email address, but my name is common and almost all ".com" variants have been snapped. Lend me your kind ears and your valuable hive experiences and advice.
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posted by ashaw
on Dec 25, 2008 -
21 answers
A question about Internet domains and DNS: What happened to the number of registered domains between 10/07 and 11/07? For the first time they dropped, and significantly: 2 million domains were unregistered.
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posted by about_time
on Nov 7, 2008 -
8 answers
Dear Hive Mind,
I'm thinking of switching my college's wordpress.com literary
blog to its own domain using wordpress.org. But I don't know if this is the right thing to do.
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posted by omnigut
on Oct 27, 2008 -
5 answers
A friend is buying a website that I've built, as well as the domain name. He's taken possession of the actual site (i.e., the software that runs it), so now I need to make him the owner of the domain. How do I do it?
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posted by inkedmn
on Sep 29, 2008 -
3 answers
The website of my domain registrar (
domains410.com) and its parent company (
parava.net) has been down for the past 36+ hours. Is there any way to transfer my domains at another registrar at this time?
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posted by agenais
on Sep 15, 2008 -
1 answer
Who is the appropriate party to file a complaint with, for a problem with a US locality (*.portland.or.us, NOT *.us) domain registrar that is not updating DNS records as requested?
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posted by anonymous
on Sep 9, 2008 -
4 answers
If I host 2 domains (for example, www.work.com and www.family.com) on the same basic Dreamhost hosting package, is there any way for someone -- other than Dreamhost -- to associate the two domains?
posted by probablysteve
on Aug 20, 2008 -
18 answers
Web Business Filter: How I can help my clients utilize the domain names they have which are related to/associated with their their main flagship business website? Forward traffic? Create minisites? Advice needed please!
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posted by Scramblejam
on Jul 9, 2008 -
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Please help me price this deal. Got a call from a company that specializies in rights clearances for television and feature films. They would like to use my domain as a backdrop in their story. While they have been short on what part the domain plays exact in their story, they did say "would like to use the website on a computer screen as set dressing in our upcoming motion picture" and "Production will create their own web design for the page with a still of one of our lead characters. We feel that this use would lend an authentic touch to our production. "
Any recommendations on how I should approach this? and the way to make this most profitable for me?
posted by boyinmiami
on Jun 3, 2008 -
17 answers
How may one obtain access to a web site, or ownership of the domain, of someone who had recently died?
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posted by brandnew
on Apr 27, 2008 -
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What do I need to do to allow users to point their domains to my web service?
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posted by jcruden
on Apr 4, 2008 -
6 answers
My friends have a webhosting account with
Network Solutions. NetSol seems to be saying that you cannot point a
.ca domain-name to that account. Is that really true? Are
.Mac accounts compatible with .ca domains? If the answer to both is no, can you recommend a webhost for .ca domains? (They have already bought the domain.) [
NB: I don't want to just use a page forwarder - that is, I want www.mysite.ca/blogs/newblog etc urls to work.] Thanks!
posted by Marquis
on Mar 27, 2008 -
5 answers
Best way to perform this Active Directory black magic? Our company has dozens of Windows terminal servers at remote locations (client sites), and we need a way to centralize Active Directory.
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posted by arnold
on Mar 25, 2008 -
5 answers
Who really owns a domain? If a company registers a domain under the name of an individual, who really owns the domain and what are their rights?
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posted by missmagenta
on Mar 21, 2008 -
6 answers
Is there such a thing as a domain name agent? Like a real estate agent, but for .com (or other) domains instead of chunks of land?
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posted by yoga
on Mar 6, 2008 -
4 answers
I'm considering registering a .ae (United Arab Emirates) domain name for my business. I've got a couple concerns.
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posted by me3dia
on Feb 12, 2008 -
7 answers
PornFilter question- some of you metaheads might remember our last question
here; wanted to say a big thank you for those suggestions. (I will also be taking metahead Britain’s advice and will be giving a donation to the charity of your choice, will determine thru another post). Question inside due to graphic nature/language. Not for the easily offended. Thanks :)
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posted by boyinmiami
on Feb 6, 2008 -
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