Howie Carr gets his .com

[Bob Nelson]

I haven't heard or read anything about why, but I
found out that WRKO's Howie Carr Show now finally has
the howiecarr.com domain name. Heard Howie give it out
a few times and thought, "maybe he's mistakenly giving
out the .com URL because they have .org..." 

But I find that, yes, howiecarr.com does now belong to
Entercom Communications of Philadelphia. howiecarr.org
apparently is registered through "Three
Seas Management" and it gives 'RKO's old address
(116 Huntington in Boston) and Howie's old
mindspring.com email address. Entercom had settled
on the ".org" domain name until they could get the
.com, I guess.

(Info through a WHOIS search which can be done at
any domain name registrar.)

Apparently a Salem resident with a company called
1918.com had registered the howiecarr.com domain name
and put up a fan site. Entercom objected, perhaps
saying H.C. is their intellectual (make jokes here)
property, and they issued a cease-and-desist order.
The man from 1918.com refused to give it up to them,
saying he would have given them the domain name but
since they treated him rudely, now he would not.
(He had emailed me with that info when I asked
about it before on this list.)

But apparently it's been settled--wonder if he and
Entercom came to an agreement? Or maybe Entercom
went to the overseer of domain name registration
(ICANN, I think) saying they had legal rights to
the name howiecarr, etc. Who knows. Maybe Howie
mentioned it on his show but I missed it.

I guess howiecarr.net is available if anyone should
want to do a fan site though perhaps Entercom would
object to someone using that...