Torn Up.Actor Rip Tom ("The Larry Sanders For the television show and fictional character, see . Larry Sanders (born in New York) is an Oxfordshire County Councillor. He has lived in Oxford since 1969. He was trained professionally as a social worker and lawyer. Show," "Men in Black") won the latest Hollywood cybersquatting Registering an Internet domain name for the purpose of reselling it for a profit. One of the more notable transactions was the domain name wallstreet.com, which was registered in 1994 for $70 and sold for one million in 1999. case over the domain name "riptorn.com." Jonathan Sokol, partner at Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , represented Tom in his dispute against a Canadian citizen who registered for the name, but didn't use it. The case was handled through the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers' Uniform Name Dispute Resolution Policy. Tom's dispute involves the most modem of cybersquatters, Sokol said. "Cybersquatters aren't as dumb as they used to be," he said. "They don't call up and say, 'Hey, I'll sell your name for $100,000.' They'll just sit on them and hoard them and wait for [the actor] to contact them." |
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