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I'm posting this for its humor content and make no judgement about any other content. I will go so far as to say you'd think the Senator would have someone on his staff with the foresight to register this:
http://www.tedcruz.com/
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That site is owned by an Arizona lawyer of the same name. It is his way of being funny and trying to poke fun at republicans. Perhaps this lawyer is just trying to insure that he continues to have plenty of business after Obama is out of office?

Apparently, that lawyer has owned the domain name for quite a while, and previously used it for his legal business, which is why it was unavailable for Texas' Ted Cruz.
 
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That site is owned by an Arizona lawyer of the same name. It is his way of being funny and trying to poke fun at republicans. Perhaps this lawyer is just trying to insure that he continues to have plenty of business after Obama is out of office?

Apparently, that lawyer has owned the domain name for quite a while, and previously used it for his legal business, which is why it was unavailable for Texas' Ted Cruz.

thanks for the info, makes total sense now.
 

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Does Eminent Domain apply to the Internet, yet?
 

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You know this thread is going to go South.

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Does Eminent Domain apply to the Internet, yet?

Not really. There have been a couple of lawsuits that forced someone to surrender a domain name and several cases where a squatter sold the domain to someone who wanted it badly enough but if you really want the domain name you pretty much have to buy up all the variations you are concerned with before a squatter figures out what you are up to, buys the rest and holds them for ransom. There are a few legal avenues to deal with this but they are not necessarily as effective as people might hope and my reading suggests that there has to be a trademark or trademark applied for before the laws have any teeth,

That said, if two guys both have the name Ted Cruz, I don't really know of a fair way to allocate "tedcruz.com" except give it to the first one who asks and not to the most famous one.

Remember that for almost a decade whitehouse dot com was a porn site....
 
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