Sandra Bullock Fights for Her Domain Name

Monday, June 29th, 2009

Actress files claim with National Arbitration Forum to get SandraBullock.com.

My neighbor* Sandra Bullock has filed for arbitration to get the domain name SandraBullock.com. The case commenced last Friday and should be decided in the next month or two.

The domain name is owned by a company called Alberta Hot Rods. The domain’s nameservers point to SmartName, but the domain name doesn’t resolve so it was likely deactivated by the service. A March 2007 site capture from The Wayback Machine shows a parked page with the disclaimer “This is an UNOFFICIAL Sandra Bullock fan site. This site is not affiliated or endorsed in any way by Sandra Bullock or any other party.”

*Bullock was building a house a half mile down the road, but ended up tearing it down and suing the builder. She may be rebuilding, but I’m not one of those nosy celebrity hounds. And no, my house isn’t worth anything near $6.5M.

Photo credit: Angela George C.C. Sharealike license.

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3 Comments » - Posted in Policy & Law by Andrew Allemann

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  1. Gazzip
    June 29th, 2009 | 12:06 pm

    They seem to spend alot of time in WIPO, no surprise squatting on names like that !

    ..here’s a few others they have lost by WIPO

    TomCruise.com

    PierceBrosnan.com

    IanFlemming.com

    LarryKing.com

    MichaelAndretti.com

    JeffreyArcher.com

    KevinSpacey.com

    TuckerCarlson.com

    jrrtolkien.com

    Somehow I think they will get their ass WIPOED again with a history like that.

    ..I wish Sandra Bullock was my neighbour :)

  2. Marg
    June 29th, 2009 | 8:48 pm

    This seems to have been the umpteenth post about a “celeb” trying to get their dot com name via WIPO. So what on earth were they or their agents doing, not so long ago, to have missed registering these names themselves in the first place?

    On GoDaddy TDNAM last year I spotted an expiring dot com name of a very famous, well-loved older UK actress. I spent some time researching who her agents were and emailed them the link, where they could have picked the name up for a $5 BIN. No interest, no response, of course. After it went through TDNAM, it was snapped up and was a parked page, and is now an unofficial fan site. Interesting to see if that ever goes to WIPO…?

  3. Domain Name Wire » News » Dispute Resolution: SandraBullock, DKB.com, and More - The Domain Industry's News Source
    August 13th, 2009 | 11:57 am

    [...] Sandra Bullock has won her case for the domain name [...]

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