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Question by Johnny rotten: Is this illegal ? A rival company has used a domain name the same as our company name to direct people to them?
I wanted to set up a web page for our business.On trying to secure the domain name i found that a rival company has secured the .co.uk domain name with our name in it.
When you do a search it takes you to a page which re-directs you to their website!.
Can they legally do this ?.I know they can secure any domain name that’s available but can it be used in this way ?

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Answer by Webintel
Not being an attorney my best guess is that unless you took out a copy right on the name or trade marked it you have little recourse.

I made a similar mistake about 10 years or more ago, I filmed a television commercial and used my company name in the commercial prior to obtaining the domain name for it. Later when I applied for the domain name, I discovered the .com was in use elsewhere. However, .org, .net, .biz, .mobi, were all open and available so I registered them.

Your difficulty appears to be the redirect page, and that is an entirely different can of worms.

I would suggest changing your domain spelling enough to get away from the redirect.

Or change your domain altogether which would completely solve your problem.

You state you want to set up a web page; and this leads me to believe you haven’t gone to that expense yet, and are in the planning stages. So changing your domain name shouldn’t be that difficult.

If you are adamant about the domain name you’ve chosen, then I suggest using .mobi . There are millions more people with mobile devices than computers, and if you build your site to be .mobi compliant, you’ll open up a big world of customers.

http://www.radsponder.com/cgi-bin/t.cgi?k=webintel:165

People in third world countries may not have computers, but they do have mobile phones to communicate with, think about it.

http://webintel.mobi

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Question by James O: Can two people hold a stake in a domain name?
Hi everyone!
I am interested to know if more than one person can be listed as the proprietor of a domain name? Legally I’m talking. I know two different people can’t register the same name (obviously) but can two people be in the Whois record (like the deeds to a house for example?)

Thanks in advance!
James

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Answer by djdubla
Sort of, In whois there are three places for contact. Registrant, administrative and technical. As far as registering goes, they only allow one entry since usually its billed to one account. Its possible to have another individual show up on the whois record by just adding them as any other contact(under admin or tech).

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Question by rama k: why people after search engine optimization these days?

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Answer by peter
Every day lot of web sites online are competing with each other to offer same services or products. Now days to get your web site noticed in such competion and get your customers in a cost effective way is possible only by listing in top 10 positions of search engines like google and yahoo. This can be accomplished only by search engine optimization.

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Question by p254.com: Where can I get a Domain name availability search script where people can search for new domains?
My client is looking for a free Domain name availability search script to put on his site so people can look up domain names..

Where can I get a Domain name availability search script where people can search for new domains? – Thanks!

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Answer by CINDYLOU
i think yahoo offers sites that help you with domain names

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