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Old May 19th, 2005, 08:50 AM
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Is this illegal or not?
There is a domain i would like to buy which is www.amirkhan.net, i was wondering if there is anything wrong with that as there is www.amirkkhan.com owned by someone else?

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Old May 19th, 2005, 09:16 AM
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Nope, but keep in mind that amirkhan the company can choose to sue you if you make your site look too much like theirs (in an effort to draw away their customers).
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Old May 19th, 2005, 07:41 PM
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Are you doing the same thing as the other company or totally different?
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Old May 25th, 2005, 12:48 PM
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nope, look at mozilla.com vs mozilla.org. Two different owners
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Old May 25th, 2005, 01:06 PM
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If you're planning to domain-squat , I believe the movie star spells his name with two a's.
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I had a friend in high school whose name was "Amir Khan"....creepy...
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your friend was creepy? Why would you write this about a friend?
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Looks like you got beat to the punch, as amirkhan.net redirects to http://www.amir-khan.com/ -- the boxer.

But it's ok if that's your name. I mean this guy got what I should have had years ago so I got this and this promptly Nice guy too. We had a friendly e-mail dialogue and had a laugh about it.
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nope, look at mozilla.com vs mozilla.org. Two different owners


Exactly. Anyway it'll be hard for the domain owner who wants to sue someone who's got the .net to prove their case, unless you make it really obvious (e.g. copycat site/company trying to steal traffic/customers).

My company's domain is a .net; the .com is owned by another company with exactly the same name as us (save for an extra full-stop in our name) - yes they got the .com first. But we're not really worried as we're based in a different country altogether and our primary business is different from theirs.
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