IP: Whats in a name NYT

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/05/cyber/articles/21bush.html#1

Bush Campaign Asks Government to Go After Critical Web Site
By REBECCA FAIRLEY RANEY 

[]
n one of the first requests to spur a Federal regulatory agency to move against a political Web site, a lawyer for the exploratory committee of Gov. George W. Bush of Texas has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission against owners of a Web site that is strongly critical of the potential Presidential candidate. 

The complaint, filed with Federal regulators on May 3, stipulates that the owner of the gwbush.com site should be required to post a disclaimer identifying who built the site and to file with the FEC as a political action committee and list the amount of money spent on the site. 
The creators of the unofficial Bush Web site said they spent nothing on the endeavor. But the owner of the Web address, known as a domain name, once tried unsuccessfully to sell the name to the committee for $350,000. By naming a dollar figure, the owner set a market value on the Web site and therefore must disclose the site to the FEC as a political contribution, said Benjamin L. Ginsberg, the Bush committee's lawyer.