Registering other people's names

[advaita]

Can someone tell me what the situation is regarding registering famous people's names if they haven't bothered registering them, - in order to create a fan site, not to sell it back to them

 

[Traveler]

As a fan site, you can't monetize, once you do you open yourself to all sorts of legal trouble at least from what I have read. So why bother?

I guess the only reason would be to hope they make an offer on the domain, but if they have a half decent lawyer I would not expect a high offer, more than likely a wipo/udrp.

http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/

That is just my layman's opinion, maybe someone else can shed more light.

 

[snailman]

As a fan site, you can't monetize, once you do you open yourself to all sorts of legal trouble at least from what I have read. So why bother?

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you can monetize indirectly-- through links, ads of your own sites, etc. i think.

 

[advaita]

Thanks for the info. - I decided against it in the end, although I have noticed that there are famous names that have been registered and parked with a 'buy this domain' banner etc... It seems strange that this person who is quite well-known would not have registered their own name and the .com is still available - but it may be more trouble than it's worth for me to register it.