# Who knows about simple domain name copyrights and rules? **URL:** \ **Category:** random\ **Created:** [June 21, 2008, 5:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/who-knows-about-simple-domain-name-copyrights-and-rules/263970 "2008-06-21T05:31:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![REEF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ce73a5/32.png) [@REEF](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/REEF)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2008, 5:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/who-knows-about-simple-domain-name-copyrights-and-rules/263970/1 "2008-06-21T05:31:21Z")
Hi friends :), Lets say I thought of a name. The domain name is [ballofterror.com](http://ballofterror.com) (this is not the real name I chose and I have no association with that website) and I have really good ideas for it! Im thinking of branding schemes and whatnot. So I google it up, and I find “ball\*\*\*s\*\*\*[ofterror.com](http://ofterror.com)” … basically the name i wanted except plural. What am I allowed to do? Can I buy it and use it anyway? Or does that guy like magically own rights to his singular form as well? Its like, what if someone bought [Nintendos.org](http://Nintendos.org) or something, wouldn’t they get sued out of their eyeballs? ---
**Author:** ![actionAction](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/actionaction/32/3987_2.png) [@actionAction](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/actionAction)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2008, 5:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/who-knows-about-simple-domain-name-copyrights-and-rules/263970/2 "2008-06-21T05:38:03Z")
If your content is the same as his/hers, the concept is the same/similar enough, your logo is the same/similar enough, you might get yourself a lawsuit. It depends on what country you are in (and also what country they are in). Basically you can’t make people think they ended up at his site when they in fact end up at yours, be it design, content, and/or concept. I was thinking of selling walls to people online, what do you think of [wallmart.com](http://wallmart.com)? They wouldn’t sue, would they…? ---
**Author:** ![REEF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ce73a5/32.png) [@REEF](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/REEF)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2008, 5:43am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/who-knows-about-simple-domain-name-copyrights-and-rules/263970/3 "2008-06-21T05:43:43Z")
[QUOTE=actionAction;2346706]If your content is the same as his/hers, the concept is the same/similar enough, your logo is the same/similar enough, you might get yourself a lawsuit. It depends on what country you are in (and also what country they are in). Basically you can’t make people think they ended up at his site when they in fact end up at yours, be it design, content, and/or concept. I was thinking of selling walls to people online, what do you think of [wallmart.com](http://wallmart.com)? They wouldn’t sue, would they…?[/QUOTE]Well the guy basically has no content. Its some random image with a name of an actor…and below he has like a small footer for contact info and other sites he owns (im assuming he owns them). He basically has no logo…the website is soooooooo empty like I said its blank with a weird actor name and some footer and nothing else. He has no concept, like I said its just a website thats hogging a good name. All in all, no logo, no design, no concept, no content (except that one image). ---
**Author:** ![actionAction](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/actionaction/32/3987_2.png) [@actionAction](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/actionAction)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2008, 6:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/who-knows-about-simple-domain-name-copyrights-and-rules/263970/4 "2008-06-21T06:07:05Z")
You could always try to contact them. [http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/index.jsp](http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/index.jsp) This article may help you some too: [http://www.nolo.com/article.cfm/objectId/D3CF0D5D-32D9-4C2B-9F9831BBED54D4A5/111/228/195/QNA/](http://www.nolo.com/article.cfm/objectId/D3CF0D5D-32D9-4C2B-9F9831BBED54D4A5/111/228/195/QNA/)