Re: RE: WDER 1320 AM Derry has a web site

["Bob Nelson...WMWM" <bobonradio@yahoo.com>]

Phil Buckley of Salem (listed in a WHOIS search
as owner of howiecarr.com and howicarr.net) had
grabbed those two domains and put up a Howie fan site;
he had said in the past
that he would gladly "give" the domain(s) to Howie/RKO
if they wished. WRKO, as I understand it, complained
that they had intellectual (make joke here) property
rights to "Howie Carr" and that Buckley
should take his sites down. Supposedly under domain
naming rights rules, WRKO or Howie should have the
rights to those domains. (If, for example, one of
us were to get "chevrolet.net", lawyers from General
Motors would soon be contacting us...)

But when you go to howiecarr.com or howiecarr.net
you get a site called "newsfeed@howiecarr.com" while
howiecarr.net brings you to the WRKO page--so maybe
WRKO's attempt to grab the domains was unsuccessful.
I'm not sure if Buckley (again, listed by WHOIS as
owner of the domains) is running these sites on his
own or somehow has been given permission by WRKO
to do so. (And Phil Buckley has emailed me before,
so Phil,if you're out there, could you let us know
what's going on with this? Thanks!)




--- Sptseditor@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated Thu, 26 Apr 2001  6:35:38 AM
> Eastern Daylight Time, hopfgapr@sprynet.com writes:
> 
> << The original intent of .net and .org have been
> compromised....anyone can use either .net or .org
> for any web site as far as I can tell. >>
> 
> Yes, when howiecarr.org appeared on the scene, that
> was the prime example of what you mention. (How the
> heck is Howie Carr deserving of a .org-domain?)
> 
> -Sean


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