There are three scenarios where I can imagine why this bloke is registering the stuff in his name:
The person is an employee of CBS in Australia tasked with clandestinely registering these names and it’s only a coincidence that he’s got the same initials as the company, or:
The person is a domain name speculator/cybersquatter taking advantage of the fact that he’s got the initials CBS in his name, and might hold CBS Corp to ransom when they want to register “CBS All Access” as a trading name.
The person is a fake entity created for the sole purpose of registering those names (but I find that highly unlikely, as I’d imagine that there is no legal standing behind using a fake entity for the ABN or ASIC record).
Scenario 2 appears the most likely. The CBS All Access ABN has as the address a post office box in Merrylands, which is also the postal address of self managed super fund and it’s business location is in Auburn.
Looks a little dodgy. For starters, the official name is CBS Sports not CBS Sport. cbssports.com.au is already registered to CBS Interactive Pty Ltd and this guy has just registered cbssport.com.au so he is possibly squatting on a variation.
there is a prohibitation on misspellings to try and get traffic with a .au domain . theres also prohibitions on registering domains just for resale and also that a domain name but have some relation to the business that regsutered it.
all that would happen is tat CBS would put a complaint in and they would be transfered to CBS
I’m going with Number 2 and I reckon he’s hoping to get a bit of money from CBS when they want them but it’ll be straight to the courts or CBS might choose to host on their current .com platform - e.g. cbs.com/au/ or au.cbs.com and just piggyback there.
Agreed with everyone else, definitely a domain squatter. I happen to know the guy in question.
I think there are a lot of people trying to speculate in a bid to profit from a big player entering the marketplace.
Though I suspect the piece in the Australian Financial Review and republished on another blog is simply a piece to try kneecap CBS before it attempts to enter the market - running scared [after all Fairfax do have a 50 percent share in Stan]
There is nothing stopping CBS from pulling a substantial amount of its content once the current deals expire - especially given how well Stan has performed.
Its not just about reaching a verdict… its also about providing a justification which can be extremely complicated. Some judgrs take a year to announce the verdict if it is complicated enough.
Nah, in all seriousness, while it’s a simple choice and simple decision for all of us, for the Judge he does have a lot of evidence to go through and to ensure that when he makes his decision he’ll be prepared for any other likely scenarios should they occur. From the shareholders point of view, I can understand them being annoyed and many would have lost what could be significant amounts of money to them but that’s one of the risks of playing the share market game. Hopefully it won’t take long for the decision and it’s all smooth sailing from here.
