Domain Names—How to Choose and Protect a Great Name for Your Website

By Attorneys Steve Elias and Patricia Gima
FIRST EDITION March 2000
EDITOR Mary Randolph
PROOFREADER Robert Wells
INDEXER Ellen Davenport
COVER Toni Ihara
PRINTING Bertlesmann Industry Services
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Acknowledgments

Thanks to Patti Gima, my wonderful co-author, and to Mary Randolph for her marvelous editing and ever-cheerful support for this book. Thanks also to the many wonderful folks at Nolo who keep the Nolo flame burning bright and bring our goods to market.
Steve Elias
Many thanks to my husband, Joe, and my son, Jordan, for their unwavering support. Thank you, Mary Randolph, for your precision editing. Thanks, Steve Elias, for being a great co-author. Thanks,too, to Terri Hearsh for the swift and wonderful book layout.

Dedications

To Rubin Santiago Elias, a good friend, great son and true child of the Internet.
Steve Elias
I'd like to dedicate this book (or my portion of it ;-)) to Jordan and Joe. Two constant sources of creativity.
Patricia Gima

About the Authors

Stephen Elias received a law degree from Hastings College of Law in 1969. He practiced in California, New York and Vermont until 1980 when he decided to make a full-time career of helping nonlawyers understand and use the law. Steve has written and edited over 30 books for Nolo Press including six books on intellectual property law. He co-authored Trademark: Legal Care for Your Business and Product Name and is the legal editor of Patent it Yourself, The Inventor's Notebook, The Copyright Handbook, Copyright Your Software and Software Development: A Legal Guide.
Patricia Gima has been an editor and author at Nolo.com since 1993. Patricia has practiced law in he areas of copyright, trademark and software licensing. She is currently the editor of several ntellectual property titles published by Nolo, including Trademark: Legal Care for Your Business & Product Name, and License Your Invention and Patent Searching Made Easy. Patricia is also co-author of Nolo's Pocket Guide to California Law and The Trademark Registration Kit.

Chapter 1: The Legal Side of Domain Names

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