Domain Names and Internet Law – What You Should Know
If you’re doing business on the web, chances are you have domain name legal issues that you don’t even know about.
Here’s a related YouTube video that I created for you.
It covers three key domain issues:
1. Registration and trademark infringement.
2. Actual domain name ownership.
3. Registration and hosting.
About the Author
With an advanced international law degree from Georgetown University and more than 15 years of real world legal experience, Attorney Mike Young is President of the Internet Ethics Council and creator of Website Legal Forms Generator software. He helps entrepreneurs protect and grow their businesses online.
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Sorry for the typos! I scanned a color copy of my driver’s license and emailed it to the registrar, eliminating the driver’s license number and birth date. Clearly, they know who I am — they called me twice coaxing me to just send it again WITH my birth date.
So they have a faxed copy and a scanned copy already. I can’t be the only one with these concerns of ID theft. Now a great and value domain name is in limbo because I can’t renew it. In fact, I think the registrar would love to get their hands on the domain.
Kathleen,
You’ve probably trusted your registrar with either your credit card number or your paypal account info when getting domains. Worrying about the registrar now committing ID theft is admirable but belated.
Some registrars will accept a scanned copy of a passport instead. It is harder to steal an ID from that than a driver’s license. In many instances, one could simply acquire the missing birth date info by scouring social media sites like Facebook or MySpace and perhaps guessing at the year of birth if not already supplied.
There’s always a risk when giving out private info. However, if you’ve been using the registrar for a while and they haven’t been misappropriating funds using the info you already supplied, the risk is slim that supplying a birth date is going to suddenly turn the registrar into a company that commits ID theft.
Need specific legal advice, consult your attorney.
Best wishes,
-Mike