For all you lawyers out there: the Illinois Republican Party owns www.rodblagojevich.com , the name of our Democratic governor, and choose to redirect all traffic to in to the IL GOP website.
My question is, would this be covered by the Anticyberquatting Consumer Protection Act of 1999? Under the ACPA, a person may face civil liability to the owner of a trademark (or a personal name) if such person:
(i) has a bad faith intent to profit from a mark; and
(ii) registers, trafficks in, or uses a domain name that:
(a) is identical or confusingly similar to a distinctive trademark;(b) is identical, confusingly similar to or dilutive of a famous trademark; or
(c) infringes a specially-granted trademark such as "U.S. OLYMPICS" or "AMERICAN RED CROSS."
http://www.submerged-ideas.com/litigation/anticybersquat.htm
It gets tricky because a name is not a trademark, and Blago is a public figure.
What'd ya think?