It Took Them Long Enough

Four years ago, a young woman named Katie Tarbox published a book called Katie.com about her experiences as a victim of abuse. There was a small problem with the title of the book, though. The domain name used as the title of the book was real! The owner of that domain, Katie Jones, was none too pleased with having to field email from all kinds of people who thought her to be the subject of the book. Since the books publication, Jones has tried to get the publisher of the book to change the title to something that does not reference her domain. This has been done.

I find this whole thing to be farce. Why couldn't the publisher and/or author do a WHOIS search to see who owned the domain?!? If I had been in charge of this project, I would have contacted Ms. Jones to license the name for the book and any other spin-off projects.

Sometimes what seems easy is hard.

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