So I own a ArtistName.com & she wants it back

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FatalError

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Around 6 months back a low-profile music artist's video went viral on social media & I grabbed her name's dot com & put some of her youtube videos on the blog. My domain is protected by whoisguard & so I received the following forwarded email:

Hi, I am wondering if this is the right organization that possesses the domain name: ABCXYZ.com. Please let me know if you are so that we can correspond further.
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I looked up the sender's email address on google & the email address does belong to the artist's manager who handles her bookings & inquiries.

Its obvious that he knows I'm not the 'right organization that possesses the domain name' so should I choose to ignore it?
 


You picked up the artist's exact name .com after she became known on YouTube, and have been using her videos to garner traffic -- hope it goes well for you, but on merits that's an open-and-shut UDRP case. That will cost them a $1,500 filing fee plus possible attorney's fees; there's a small chance you could get some amount lower than that for the name, if you don't mind feeling kind of scummy for a few hundred bucks.

On the other hand, if you happen to like the artist, I've seen a couple of cases where other people did this, and ended up giving the name over and getting VIP fan treatment from the artist. (Maybe not "fan service," ahem, but passes and swag o'plenty.)


Frank
 
Dude, did you really buy her name lol....

This might be an open and shut case but honestly I would tell them to cut a check or kick rocks.
 
I would change your info behind the whois first. Then don't respond or reply with a gmail account and see what they want.

I have a popular exact match artist name also. Does pretty well with just adsense on it. Never been contacted, however.
 
That domain better not be with godaddy, or you'd better rubber up.

If you plan on keeping it, transfer to an offshore registrar. (and change the whois details - my less than kosher domains have a Colombian address as the whois.)
 
Thanks Bros :) The domain is with namecheap & even the actual registration information is different from my real info so I'll wait & see if they email me again.
 
-joe- said:
That domain better not be with godaddy, or you'd better rubber up.

If you plan on keeping it, transfer to an offshore registrar. (and change the whois details - my less than kosher domains have a Colombian address as the whois.)
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On a related note, anyone know about registrar reputations on this stuff?

Like, which registrars are going to buckle at the first sign of trouble, and which ones won't?
 
GoDaddy is known to bend over and grab its ankles at a moments notice.

They also try to scam you while at it.
"Pay $XXX or we have to close down your domain."

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