jbg Posted January 10, 2008 Report Posted January 10, 2008 The article excerpted below is utterly hilarious. It seems that someone bought the domain name edstelmach.ca and linked it to the Wikipedia page about Harry Strom (link), more or less as a joke (the kind I'm known for). This reminds me of a Colorado family that, back in 2000, registered www.msdw.com as "Mud Sweat's Downhill World" (link to article) in order to make Morgan Stanley (then "Morgan Stanley Dean Whittier), a major financial services company, purchase the domain name. Article excerpted below (link): Stelmach threatens to sue over web address Jason Fekete, Calgary Herald Published: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 Premier Ed Stelmach is fighting to save his name -- literally. Stelmach is threatening to sue Dave Cournoyer, a 24-year-old University of Alberta political science student and blogger, in an effort to secure the Internet domain name edstelmach.ca. A provincial Liberal supporter, Cournoyer purchased the domain for $14 in April 2007, four months after Stelmach became premier and a year after the Tory leader threw his hat in the ring for the party crown. *************** He initially forwarded the web address to his own personal political blog, www.daveberta.ca. But in December, he linked it to an Internet encyclopedia web page dedicated to former Social Credit premier Harry Strom -- a leader whose party faced electoral misfortune and to whom Stelmach has unflatteringly been compared to. In December -- before the web address was linked to the Strom page -- Stelmach had a Calgary-based lawyer send a letter to Cournoyer insisting the website and blog "misappropriate Premier Stelmach's persona." It urged him to stop linking the Internet address to his blog or other web pages, and to hand over the domain name to Stelmach. "I'm not sure where Ed Stelmach's personality is, but I certainly didn't take it," Cournoyer quipped. ******************* However, he suggested the whole confrontation could have been avoided had the premier simply phoned him and politely asked for the domain name. "I'm not sure what to think when the first reaction from the premier is to go to a high-priced Calgary lawyer to take on a 24-year-old university student," he said. Quote Free speech: "You can say what you want, but I don't have to lend you my megaphone." Always remember that when you are in the right you can afford to keep your temper, and when you are in the wrong you cannot afford to lose it. - J.J. Reynolds. Will the steps anyone is proposing to fight "climate change" reduce a single temperature, by a single degree, at a single location? The mantra of "world opinion" or the views of the "international community" betrays flabby and weak reasoning (link).
guyser Posted January 10, 2008 Report Posted January 10, 2008 Ed can file a complaint with some domain people and have it withdrawn from the student. Quote
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