Comments on: Green Day Wants AmericanIdiot.com Domain Name

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Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:55:14 +0000

[...] Green Day Wants AmericanIdiot.com Domain Name [...]

By: Tanya

Tanya — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 03:13:43 +0000

They went with http://www.americanidiotonbroadway.com/

By: A Green Day Fan Site » Green Day Fight’s For It’s Right To The Interweb

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:48:06 +0000

[...] Day filed for arbitration over ownership of the AmericanIdiot.com domain name. According to comments, it last changed hands for $850. The fight seems to pit webheads [...]

By: Andrew Allemann

Andrew Allemann — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:56:11 +0000

@ Chris – you don’t have to have a filed trademark to have a trademark.

By: Chris Nielsen

Chris Nielsen — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:15:30 +0000

Some people have pretty strong opinions about stories like this, but that does not make what they say the truth or the law.

A squatter is defined as someone using property and breaking the law. A domain is like a plot of land. If you pay for it, you have the legal right to it unless there is some ownership issue (like a trademark) that is more important. Is the song or album name trademarked? If it is that’s the end of the story. I doubt it is since it’s probabaly covered under “copyright” and who trademarks their song titles or album names? Maybe they should and maybe they did. But if not then there’s not much to talk about.

Do you know what the cost would be to trademark all of the song titles in the Beatles collection???

Sorry, but in this case, Greenday should have just bought the domain if they wanted it so bad, or they could get americanidiot.biz or americanidiot.us if they hurry. Someone was smart enough to reg AMERICANIDIOTTICKETS.COM, but I doubt it was Green Day.

Isn’t it about time that people start hiring domain name consultants to help them avoid this kind of problem?

By: GreenDayFriend

GreenDayFriend — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:35:39 +0000

The band had 5 years to think about it and now wants it. I say no.

I’m on the domain owner side as he should have a very nice $$$$$ Green day.

Domain name owner should get 5% of the record sales of americanidiot for the domain name. Such an appropriate name in this situation.

By: Stephen Douglas

Stephen Douglas — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:51:34 +0000

Go Green Day!

Go Domainers!

Umm… who is right? The band that made the phrase popular and sold prodservs with it, or the domainer that grabbed it and is using it for… umm… pointing out GW Bush and his Administration? (if he was, I’d be on his side).

Green Day will get the domain.