Fergie's Tech Blog

Tom Cruise fights for TomCruise.com

Kieren McCarthy writes on his blog:

I've just learnt that Tom Cruise - you know, the Scientologist nut what does movies - has gone to WIPO to win back TomCruise.com.

The complaint - D2006-0560 - was put in yesterday and is pending a compliance review. Tom Cruise - or more likely his minions - have been very, very slow in noticing this Internet thing. The domain was registered in November 1996 - nearly ten years ago!

And there have been dozens of famous people going to WIPO or the courts to get back their namesake domains. The most Net-savvy was doing it back in 1999. I know because I've been following domain disputes closely for years.

I have little doubt that this sudden interest in the Net is because Tom Cruise is increasingly becoming a figure of ridicule on the Net.

posted by Fergie @ 5/09/2006 09:09:00 AM