Right, link to Oprah's site, unless she or her company wants to allow video
on this other site. I suspect that Oprah would be more than glad, actually,
to help this person get her site up and to help promote it further,
including permission to use the show's clips, since it would be exactly in
keeping with the very purpose Oprah has had these shows, and Oprah seems to
have clearly shifted towards seeing herself - as she herself says - as
providing a platform for informing, helping and empowering people in such
ways. So before I do anything to set up a site, I might try to contact the
show and see if they would want to help out, what they think. Of course, I
will soon be letting the person know about getting her name registered.
In the end, decided to do it because, if no other reason, what you said
about people likely cybersquatting it for purely commercial purposes. Some
here have questioned my motives and I don't have time at the moment (late
for the Greenfestival) to explain them, but I will and be happy to, and will
just say for now (as I think I already said) that, like this person, I am an
advocate for people who are disabled, mentally ill and otherwise at the
bottom of society, and I would see setting this site up as a mechanism to
help a lot of people, just as Oprah's shows with this person (2 in a week,
actually, which may well be unprecedented (same guest on both, same issues)
surely are doing. I am sure I will be letting this person know that I got
her name in the next few weeks and if she isn't thrilled about having it
become a sort of "fan" site (something I was only vaguely familiar with
until you mentioned it) and would like possession of this domain with her
name, I will gladly give it to her immediately, without even charging her
the $7 or so it cost me to buy it.
Do you know if it would be easy and inexpensive to effectively transfer the
name to her? Can I just give it away to her, or anyone for that matter
(just a hypothetical)? I was reading about getting paid for a "parked"
domain name on Go, something I didn't know about before. I will not do this
or something like it to commercialize on her name (which, of course I could
drive a lot of traffic to by setting up a website using it and in many other
ways). I will not do this and have no need to do so. If I was doing any of
this for those sort of ulterior motives, wouldn't exactly have been smart to
go on about this at length on a listserve read by, I'm guessing, a lot of
people. And if I do anything like that, my written statements are right
here, for anyone to see or refer back to. Not that it would be worth
anything for anyone to sue me, since I don't have any money anyway! :)
Randall
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Piwowar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM>
Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2007 11:01 AM
Subject: Re: [CGUYS] Grabbing domain names of well-known persons?
>H'mmmm....Anyone here ever dealt with a situation like this? - as far as
whether the added exposure of a website causes a lot of extra pressure,
etc.? I'm guessing that most of us would think we'd die for that kind of
exposure and web traffic, and maybe she would too, but she's not exactly a
businessperson in that sense, though guess it could never hurt to promote
her books, appearances, etc.
It is very likely that 110% of her time is committed so you should not
expect much input from her. She may also be of an age where the benefits
of a web site are not clear.
If you do this with respect you should not run into trouble. Don't forget
that you have a special responsibility here and that careless action on
your part could damage someone who you respect. Stay to the facts and do
not insert your own opinions into the site.
Don't expect to be able to post Oprah interviews as these shows and the
networks closely guard their IP. Look to see if Oprah posts the interview
and link to that. Again, do it with respect: link to their page, do not
try to embed their content in your page.
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