[TripleHRulesUK]

ComedyDave.com is being sold here on eBay: -

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 2729031579

It's not going for much though!!!

[coct]

Wonder whose selling that then...wouldnt be you?

I like this though: "And if you're name is Dave, or you would like to be called Dave and you 'believe' you are funny, then Comedy Dave would be a great nickname and this domain name would be great to promote you or your work."

[Bridgie]

the lot doesnt show up if you type in "comedy dave" though so i don't see many people bidding.

[Adam]

why does he start the bidding at £1-00?

[coct]

Because he wanted to I'm guessing

[Adam]

well, it seems silly because i doubt it will sell. the reserve price isnt even met yet. so was he the seller plugging?

[coct]

Do you care Adam? were you thinking of buying it? Please just stop.

[timb]

a domain like that would make a nice hostmask, maybe i'll bid £2

[Bridgie]

a domain like that would make a nice hostmask, maybe i'll bid £2

then maybe i'll bid £3 (eyes look suspiciously round to room to see if anybody else might be intersted)

*note to timb, im not really, bid that fecker

[timb]

well

"You are the current high bidder...
But the reserve price has not yet been met"

ill be buggered if im paying more than £2

[Bridgie]

ill be buggered if im paying more than £2

then surely you'd be only too happy to bid more th...

sorry that was a cheap gag, someone had to do it though

[Jonny Hoare]

damn beat me to it

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

by a mere 13 hours eh? thats quite quick for you hoare.

[timb]

FYI i'm not in to buggery

[Sidders]

Looks like David's bidding.

Is this legal? Surely it's cybersquatting?

[Gigglyboots]

Soo...Some guy tried to sell his kidney one time. It almost got done until they closed that auction down.

[timb]

if you setup a comedy dave interest site then no it isn't anymore than chrismoyles.net is. its when people register domains for the sole purpose of extorting money from the legal trademark owned that is called cyber squatting. however we all know how stupid the US courts are so you can't be too sure. http://www.nissan.com where nissan tried to sue someone for the domain when it was actually his family name and had been used in his business for a long time.

[Sidders]

however we all know how stupid the US courts are so you can't be too sure. http://www.nissan.com where nissan tried to sue someone for the domain when it was actually his family name and had been used in his business for a long time.

That's a bit crap innit? That bloke must be well pissed off.

[Jonny Hoare]

Squatting its called. Unless you own a site allready- hence boots.com is actually a fetish site and not the home of nations favourite chemist

[timb]

even if you dont own a site when you buy the domain it aint squatting if you put up a site

http://www.feeder.co.uk is another example that i have probably linked to before

[timb]

however we all know how stupid the US courts are so you can't be too sure. http://www.nissan.com where nissan tried to sue someone for the domain when it was actually his family name and had been used in his business for a long time.

That's a bit crap innit? That bloke must be well pissed off.

yep, they are trying to get him to give in just by making the legal costs as high as possible too

http://www.ncchelp.org/The_Story/the_story.htm

[Sidders]

Forceing him out of business. That makes sense, rather harsh though. BTW, I wonder what this means:

[David]

Looks like David's bidding.

Is this legal? Surely it's cybersquatting?

Yeah - I thought £2.40 wont hurt but as the asking price is £14.99 - I wont get it, and I cant be arsed to pay that much...

As Comedy Dave doesn't own the trademark for that name, it's leagal.

[Sidders]

Didn't ChrisMoyles.com use to link to a porn site?

[Sam]

lol, yes. I'd forgotten about that, his agent of the time tried to change it and couldn't.