Holly,
Appended to the lists were dot com and dot org.
There are many many more domain extensions out there.
If you actually enter them, they don't bring up a webpage.
None of us use those URLs anyway.
The pages on rootsweb use
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ga(six letters of yourcounty)/
Many have their pages on other servers.
Does registering a domain give you any right to the name itself except as a
server location?
I have
donnaparrish.com but that doesn't mean that all those other people
named Donna Parrish can't use their names. They just can't type it in and
have their page come up.
Someone should ask an attorney about any rights owning the domain gives a
person.
Unless someone wants to set up their own server or rent space for their
domain, no one is going to use that URL anyway.
If someone does buy it and put up their own pages, it would show up in search
engines but it wouldn't show up on our pages unless we linked them.
I say let her have them and enjoy them. The best defense we have for keeping
our free genealogy intact is to keep our links up-to-date and our pages fresh
so someone will want to use them.
If she actually sells the names to someone else and they put up their own
pages, there is a javascript that can be used to reroute from a specific
domain to another location (for example to your own main page) to keep
someone from using your work as theirs. The best way would be to put a
header or footer on each of our pages so that someone would know what URL
they are on.
Donna Parrish
Forsyth, Hall, White, Gordon and Dawson - GA Counties
all on rootsweb server and all linked from
http://donnaparrish.com/