J.K. Rowling just released the name of the last Harry Potter book, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”, and also registered many of the relevant domain names.
If there’s anything J.K. Rowling and her legal team hasn’t been about domain names, it’s proactive. Combined with Time Warner, Rowling has filed a number of disputes for domain names that include the “Harry Potter” name in them. Finally, as she introduced the title of the last book in the series, Rowling’s literary agency took the proactive step of registering domains related to the title before squatters could jump in.
The title of the book is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Rowling’s literary agency snapped up HarryPotterandtheDeathlyHallows.com and virtually all other major extensions including .net, .org, .info, .biz, .us, and .co.uk. Interestingly, Warner Bros (Time Warner company that owns rights to all Harry Potter books and movies) registered the .de (Germany version) instead of Rowling’s literary agency. This is likely because the literary agency, Christopher Little Literary Agency, doesn’t have a business establishment in Germany. A connection to Germany is required to register .de domains, the most popular country code domain.
The literary agency also registered other domains, such as multiple extensions of DeathlyHallows.com. But apparently the wizardry stops there. Squatters were able to pick up a number of probable typos to “Deathly Hallows”, including multiple extensions of DeathlyHollows.com and DeathyHallows.com.
Rockefeller says
Leave domainers alone. You snooze, you lose.
MARTINMAHON says
I JUST GOTTA SAY WHY DO YOU HAVE TO KILL OFF HARRY IN THE LAST BOOK IF I COULD FINISH THE BOOK HARRY KILLS VOLDEMORT THEN HE BECOMES HEADMASTER OF HOGWARTS
Angela says
I own several harry potter sites related to the last movie being split ie. part 1 and part 2. I did not realize all this was such a big deal. I guess I missed the war and will wind up in court.