Dell sues web designer because of his name

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Yes, Dell Computers, the huge company that is well know for making cheap, well built and hugely reliable computers is sueing a web designer called Paul Dell because he dares to have the same surname as Michael Dell, the founder if Dell Computers.

Paul Dell has a web design company and registered the domain www.dellwebsites.com - which makes perfect sense to any normal person that someone with the name Dell who makes websites would register that domain. But Dell Computers has decided that he has comitted "acts of parasitism and of unfair competition to the detriment of the American company Dell INC and the French company Dell, and its commercial name: Dellhost as well as its domain names: dell.fr and dellhost.fr. "

"Paul has been summoned to appear before the Tribunal de Grande Instance Paris. Dell Computers is suing him - not just to get the domain name from him, but also 100,000 Euro in damages to Dell America, 50,000 Euro to Dell France. They have also have ordered him to pay each Dell Company 40,000 Euro as well as 500 Euro for every presence of the word Dell on his site."

Source http://pauldell.blogspot.com/

Just thought I'd share this with everyone becuse it made me angry when I read it.

There is a more detailed article here http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/26/dell_domain_dispute/

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that sux

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From what im hearing atm, things are underway to sort Dell out

D.O.S. anyone?