『尊米网』域名资讯平台

尊米首页 > 域名新闻 > 英文媒体报道 >

Alberta premier threatens to sue over domain name

Premier Ed Stelmach is ready to take legal action against a university student who bought the rights to the domain name edstelmach.ca.

Dave Cournoyer, who writes about Alberta politics and other issues on his blog daveberta.ca, bought the rights to the domain in April when he noticed no one had registered it.

Dave Cournoyer, a university student and blogger, said he has no intention of giving up the domain.
(CBC) Anyone who visited edstelmach.ca was initially directed to the daveberta site, which generates about $20 per month in advertising revenue.

On Dec. 3, Cournoyer received a letter from Stelmach's lawyers, accusing him of stealing the premier's persona. It demands that the blogger hand over the domain and the advertising revenue generated from it to Stelmach or face litigation.

"This constitutes an invasion and impairment of our client's exclusive right to market his personality," reads the letter from law firm Walsh, Wilkins, Creighton LLP.

"Our client is entitled to the amount he would reasonably have received in the market for the permission to use his name."