Estate owns domain name two years after entering into a settlement agreement with popcorn seller.
The estate of Michael Jackson now owns KingOfPop.com after a legal battle.
It sued Gourmet Gift Baskets in 2016, alleging that the company’s use of KingOfPop.com for a website selling popcorn infringed on the late musician’s famous moniker.
According to court records, the two parties settled in 2017. But Jackson’s estate just got control of the domain name in recent days.
This suggests that the confidential settlement had about a two year transition period to allow Gourmet Gift Baskets to transition its use of the domain. The domain resolved to its former website until about the middle of 2018, at which point it began forwarding to gourmetgiftbaskets.com/popcorn.
Changing a site’s domain name is hard; changing an entire brand is even more challenging.
KingOfPop.com now forwards to MichaelJackson.com
(Hat tip: Jamie Zoch)
Back where it should be 🙂
King of acting inappropriate around children, more like.
keep your racistout of range
What has racism got to do with Wacko acting inappropriate with children?
susu says, yes, she sound like a racist. they always ready to believe lies on blacks and call blacks out of their name even when facts/testimony clears blacks.
oh please Michael is was and will always be innocent for anyone who doesnt believe that why do you even comment just ignore anything to do with him. Why cant people leave him alone and move on with their lives??
Wacko fans are deluded.
No Carole, fools like you are deluded. FACTS proved Michael to be innocent. Deal with it. A black man can prove his innocent and people like u still want to believe the lies. Get over it.
Spotify is the way the overwhelming majority of people listen to music now. He’s a long way from the top of the list. Jackson is in 80th place when it comes to monthly listeners. The number of followers he has on there isn’t very impressive compared to other artists. Heck, he isn’t even the highest ranked legacy artist on Spotify. Queen are in 32nd place with many more followers.
His days of being “King” are in the past, besides, Elvis is the only artist that’s known as “The King”. As for Jackson, mediocre middle of the road pop never did it for me.
You’re an idiot Michael jackson remains the only king of pop no one else
No. Providing factual information that can be backed up does not make one an idiot.
And the FACTUAL Information clears MJ. People were PROVEN liars, changing stories and ADMITTING to lying on MJ but that is not good enuf for a few folks yet these people making claims ALWAYS caught in LIES and then tell tabloids lies to get PAID. this is FACTUAL.
I am the owner of TheKing.com 🙂
Umm those who think hes still not relevant need to check their figures again because you aren’t looking right, Thriller is still on the billboards and that is over 30 years old. He is still the highest paid dead celebrity BEFORE ELVIS. SO TRY THAT AGAIN!!!
He tops Elvis simply because he does not own any music publishing rights….
And MJ is listen to by ALL groups of people. Sorry but blacks, hispanics, etc are not pumping up Elvis.
Michael is better known world wide than elvis…elvis is popular so western world…mj more talented than elvis,zI don’t even know his music…mj more awarded than elvis,mj true king in africa….some people are jalous of the huge succes of mj….
They couldn’t get King of pedo?
NO SORRY HARVEY WHINESTIEN IS THE KING OF THE PEDOS OR IS IT HIS FRIEND JEFFERY EPSTEIN!!!!!!!
Your profile picture makes your opinion irrelevant. You are not objective.
People here stop talking about nonesense michael jackson is the king of pop now and he will forever he out sold every other musicians on earth and it proved by the Guinness book of records
And abour him being child molester it was never proved in any court he was accuidet and the FBI never found anything and neverland bullcrapt mockmentery is fool with holes and lies in it that was proven to be lies like the train station that never was build yet
So all the nonesense you commenting here. Is not important the truth is
Actually Elvis is the top selling artist of all time….
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/best-selling-solo-artist?fb_comment_id=975760479120726_1076875372342569
Elvis put out 238 albums in total
Mj has put out 63
MJ is pretty close with only a 1/4 of the total of Elvis albums, Mj sold over 750mill (now believed to be over a billion)
I work with kids, they dont have a clue who Elvis is,(a shame, because he is great) but they know and love to dance to MJ
The Beatles have outsold Jackson by a LONG way.
Michael Jackson is in 80th place on Spotify (which i how the majority of people listen to music). So his popularity has declined a lot.
You wish his popularity has decline; if so, u would not be in here talking about him even after being dead for 10 years. MJ popularity is still on the rise and cross all people. I hear MJ music EVERDAY on ALL STATION. I do not hear the Beatles.
Elvis is popular only in western world…Mj is popular everywhere in the world…I don’t even know any elvis song or elvis dance movie,Mj was more talented,he has won more awards than elvis…Michael is a true king in Africa…some people has fabricated stories to tarnish Mj image…mj is a megastar…elvis is king only for white veterans in america…mj true talent,
Spotify (the way the majority of people consume music now) shows us the data. Jackson is in 80th place worldwide. Queen are far more popular now.
Wrong! Most people I know never used Spotify and they have quite a collection of digital music. I don’t use Spotify either.
Wow yes
EWWWW. Your profile picture. Hide the kids! lol
MJJ PRODUCTIONS BIG SHOP will happen as we redesign a retail shores to one building called MJJ PRODUCTIONS BIG SHOP location will open in Temple hills , MD given it may require proof of age for maturity in certain areas of the location.
MJ made more contributions to the needy and various charities that help children . He did more to help this world than any other artist there is or was. Look THAT up in Guiness World records. No other artist ever did as much as he did for humanity. Haters need to get a life because God is the only judge and he judges on how well you treat people. What have you done to make the world a better place??
What about KingOfPops.com? They are based in Atlanta and have been around for some time. I am not really sure how this would impact them..
Thats why when you brand yourself you should immediately trademark yourself so that cases like these would not happen. Also KingofPop could have also been a good slogan for Coca Cola not just MJ, just saying….
So that means KingofPop is official Michael trademark? if so then wow. Congrats Michael.