Can I register a domain name that isn't me?

AlisonM — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 10:38:50 -0800

What kind of problems would I encounter for registering [myname].com where [myname] isn't actually mine? I'm Alison [Lastname]. I'm a senior in college, studying photography. I'm in the process of building my online portfolio. Obviously, I am going to get the domain alisonlastname.com, but I was also thinking about getting allisonlastname.com (2 L's instead of one) as well. I would have allisonlastname.com redirect to alisonlastname.com. Pretty much every time someone spells my name, they do the 2 L thing. I always correct people, but since the rest of the world seems to prefer Allison over Alison, people tend to automatically go for the 2 L thing, so I'm just trying to make it easy for people to find me.

Since my last name isn't common, I didn't even think that it might be a possibility that Allison Lastname existed, but I googled it, and she does! There's even a picture of her online at her brother's college graduation, and I think she's sort of around the same age as me (she's probably early to mid-20s, I just turned 28).

Now, what happens if I go and register allisonlastname.com and she wants it at some point down the line? Is it even legal for me to register allisonlastname.com? If she wants it at some point, I'd be willing to talk to her about it, but I just don't want to get slapped with a lawsuit or something one day out of the blue. I know, I know, there's a 99% chance that she'd email me and say something like, "haha! There's two of us...can we talk about me getting my name?" but with my luck, I'd end up with the 1% that will automatically go into "screw the one-L Alison!" mode.

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JonnyRotten — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 08:25:48 -0800

I need to know the process to set up a "evil twin" ad hoc network. I think one of my users here may be trying to play around where they should not, and I need to know how to check if they are trying to set up a "evil twin" called "free wifi access" Friday night I had a user notice a wif ad hoc network called "Free public access"
I need to find out how one gets set up, so I can check if a user I suspect of doing this is.
To make it even worse, the user is running Japanese windows. So the more detailed the instructions the better.

No. I am not going to be setting it up myself. I just need to understand the process.

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