A Wired.com reporter was first to register mcdonalds.com (1994)

Re:A Wired.com reporter was first to register mcdonalds.com ... by rplnt on Thursday February 07, 2013 @04:57AM (#5181295)

Wouldn't they just take it from you if you haven't had business associated with it? By take I mean sue you.

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Re:A Wired.com reporter was first to register mcdonalds.com ... by danielweber on Thursday February 07, 2013 @10:26AM (#5182508)

The law was very unclear at the time, so it was hard to say just what would happen.

There was this general consensus on the net (definitely not universal) that you ought to have a legitimate use for the name, so if your name was Bob McDonald you might have a claim to mcdonalds.com. This consensus eventually became mostly encoded into law.

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Re:A Wired.com reporter was first to register mcdonalds.com ... by JacobAldridge on Thursday February 07, 2013 @07:39AM (#5181739)

I'm thinking more business.com than mcdonalds.com - the OP got McDonalds to donate something to charity, but I imagine if he'd tried to profit from it he might have found McJane on the end of a McLawsuit.

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Re:A Wired.com reporter was first to register mcdonalds.com ... by HeyLaughingBoy on Thursday February 07, 2013 @05:14PM (#5184869)

Sure, but it's cheaper to settle than to go to court. Even if it cost me $70 for the domain, I'd happily let it go for $5,000.

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