Skip to content

Comment on Ask HN: A porn-like site stole my [firstnamelastname].com domain. What to do?

Comments

Either offer them some money or deal with it I guess.

You have no real right to your name as a domain name... If you let them buy it before you or let it expire, that's your loss unfortunately.

Wouldn't Apple or Google be able to prevent others from stealing out their domain names from under them? Wouldn't Steve Jobs or Bill Gates be able to? I don't know the law with regard to this, so I wonder if you're right, and there really is no resolution process.

That is because they have trademarks that most courts would accept, noone has a trademark on their name. Well not normally anyway

AboutSource Built by g1lg1l

Hackerly is an independent reader for Hacker News, built on the public HN API. Not affiliated with Y Combinator.