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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 ____ _: Good free web hosters? Also need to know how register domain name with them?
Just got a domain : ubernoob.com
The problem is I don’t have webhosting, nor do I know how to register my domain. I was planning on using https://www.blogger.com/start
but, before I do, I wish to get other people’s opinion. Thanks in advance

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Answer by Elisa M
Try freehostia or else http://aplis.net/

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Question by Dave: Is there a site where you can get a free domain name without hosting the domain with them?

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Answer by Ryan j
idk

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Question by tamphuc: I am reporting about registing domain name and hosting. Who know about hosting or websites about them?
What’s hosting? Usage? Activity? …..
Please send to me references documents about them as soon as. Thanks.

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Answer by abid_azeemi
i guess this is none of you job to report on registraing domain as you are not from this field, you better contact a consultant or software house.

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Question by Jess: I bought a web site from godaddy and cant get rid of top advertisement, i purchased hosting with them…..?

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Answer by TristanVR
You are in luck. I had to do this last night. And after some tries I got it. When you buy a domain from them they give you a free hosting credit. Do not use it. That is what I did and got what you are getting now.
When you go to your hosting list, you will see the list of hosting accounts you have set up. Yours probably says something like “Economy hosting (free blah blah )”
If you bought economy hosting, it should not have the “free” part.
I canceled my free hosting account. Then assigned the domain name to my real paid account. Beware, if you have stuff in the free hosting account, it will be deleted when you cancel. Download it locally first.
You have to wait a long time after you cancel for it to get processed. Go to sleep and continue next morning. This frees the domain to be assigned to the paid hosting account. Check the emails they sent you for instructions. If you get stuck, call them. They are extremely helpful.

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