Spike Lee Wins Back SpikeLee.com From a Porn Co. - GoFuckYourself.com

KRL · 08-27-2004, 03:47 PM

GENEVA - Movie director Spike Lee has won his cybersquatting case against a Philippines-based operator who misused the domain name, spikelee.com, to redirect surfers to a pornographic Web site, arbitrators ruled Friday.

Lee filed the complaint against Mercedita Kyamko of the Philippines who registered the domain name in 1999, the World Intellectual Property Organization said.

It forwards users to a pornographic Web site located at clubhongkong.com, and was registered in "bad faith," according to Canadian lawyer Edward Chiasson, the neutral arbitrator named by WIPO to rule on the dispute.

Lee joins other entertainers, including Madonna , Celine Dion and Eminem who have won cases at the Geneva-based U.N. agency. The domain name is automatically transferred within 10 days unless the loser launches a court case challenging the decision.

WiredGuy · 08-27-2004, 03:49 PM

Nice, so who's account is pampanga over at clickcash

WG

KRL · 08-27-2004, 03:50 PM

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Originally posted by WiredGuy
Nice, so who's account is pampanga over at clickcash
WG

strobi · 08-27-2004, 03:50 PM

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Originally posted by WiredGuy
Nice, so who's account is pampanga over at clickcash
WG

O-Ow

One more fried account

Wiggles · 08-27-2004, 03:57 PM

wonder if he offered to buy it first?

Doctor Dre · 08-27-2004, 04:18 PM

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Originally posted by strobi
O-Ow One more fried account

Why ? He was probably redirecting all his domains there or something ...

Manowar · 08-27-2004, 04:25 PM

Some cases, you can see why people have a point if they have a domain like

jacko.com and say michael jackson wanted it

But taking someones name so blatantly is bound to leave you screwed

tootie · 08-27-2004, 04:27 PM

I think the images on Club Hong Kong are all stolen, too. I think one of them is from an old e-mail collection box from years ago, Naughty Mail, maybe.

evanmorgan · 08-27-2004, 04:31 PM

does this mean that every spike lee (im sure theres loads) can go and get a piece of the pie

Corona · 08-27-2004, 06:03 PM

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Originally posted by KRL
Lee joins other entertainers, including Madonna , Celine Dion and Eminem who have won cases at the Geneva-based U.N. agency.

Anyone know if Mars, makers of M & Ms, ever tried to prevent Eminem from using that name?

chodadog · 08-27-2004, 06:20 PM

Why would anyone send the traffic to a porn site if they owned that domain anwyays? You'd have to figure that having some kind of Spike Lee related ebay ads, or amazon ads would be more effective. Or selling advertising to big collectable websites and shit like that.

swoop · 08-27-2004, 06:22 PM

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Originally posted by chodadog
Why would anyone send the traffic to a porn site if they owned that domain anwyays? You'd have to figure that having some kind of Spike Lee related ebay ads, or amazon ads would be more effective. Or selling advertising to big collectable websites and shit like that.

Great post. Could of been a good affiliate if they did it this way by linking to those programs.

enter » · 08-27-2004, 06:56 PM

Spike Lee is a fighter. He won a settlement from Spike TV a while back. They actually had to stop calling themselves Spike TV for a while, but eventually paid an undisclosed amount to continue using it.

exposed · 08-27-2004, 06:58 PM

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Originally posted by Manowar
Some cases, you can see why people have a point if they have a domain like

jacko.com and say michael jackson wanted it

But taking someones name so blatantly is bound to leave you screwed

lol

08-27-2004, 03:47 PM	#1
KRL Entrepreneur Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: USA Posts: 31,429	Spike Lee Wins Back SpikeLee.com From a Porn Co. GENEVA - Movie director Spike Lee has won his cybersquatting case against a Philippines-based operator who misused the domain name, spikelee.com, to redirect surfers to a pornographic Web site, arbitrators ruled Friday. Lee filed the complaint against Mercedita Kyamko of the Philippines who registered the domain name in 1999, the World Intellectual Property Organization said. It forwards users to a pornographic Web site located at clubhongkong.com, and was registered in "bad faith," according to Canadian lawyer Edward Chiasson, the neutral arbitrator named by WIPO to rule on the dispute. Lee joins other entertainers, including Madonna , Celine Dion and Eminem who have won cases at the Geneva-based U.N. agency. The domain name is automatically transferred within 10 days unless the loser launches a court case challenging the decision.

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chodadog Confirmed User Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 9,736	Why would anyone send the traffic to a porn site if they owned that domain anwyays? You'd have to figure that having some kind of Spike Lee related ebay ads, or amazon ads would be more effective. Or selling advertising to big collectable websites and shit like that. __________________ 26 + 6 = 1

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Manowar jellyfish Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 71,528	Some cases, you can see why people have a point if they have a domain like jacko.com and say michael jackson wanted it But taking someones name so blatantly is bound to leave you screwed

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enter » Confirmed User Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: -- arizona --» Posts: 2,362	Spike Lee is a fighter. He won a settlement from Spike TV a while back. They actually had to stop calling themselves Spike TV for a while, but eventually paid an undisclosed amount to continue using it. __________________ «-- offer extended through New Years (icq286487452)