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Old 09-03-2007, 06:47:47 PM     #3 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Rockon View Post
Hi,
I have my own name as a .co.uk domain. I would appreciate some advice as I have a company demanding that I hand over the domain name to them. They say that I was damaging his reputation as there happened to be a link to another website which had nothing to do with him. (there was previously a short biography of the other guy with the same name as me and a link to amazon where there were books about his work) I was doing little else other than trying to put a stop to email enquiries which I was recieving now and again.
I have to say the link they were refering to was there by accident I just hadn't removed it. The link in case you are wondering went to a perfectly reputable website, it was not anything offensive what so ever.
I bought the domain for putting up my own work but due to other web projects hadn't got around to completing my site. I never purchased the domain for missleading people what so ever.
Any advice would be appreciated...

Thanks
Rockon
If the domain is your own name, then you have a right to register it and to use it for your own things.

I take it from your post that the name is also the name of a famous person and you had linked to Amazon where their products were for sale. Whether this amounts to honest business practice - a requirement of the own name defence - I am less sure.

None of the above constitutes legal advice. PM me if you want legal advice.
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