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Oversee.net's
Domainfest
conference
always manages to come up with unique,
headline grabbing party ideas for the
popular annual show in Los Angeles.
In previous year's they've attracted
attendees with everything from soirees at
the Playboy Mansion to dinner under
the Endeavour space shuttle. Over
the weekend, Domainfest organizers
announced that for their upcoming
conference March 31-April 2, 2014
Grammy award winning rock band Stone
Temple Pilots with Chester Bennington,
will play a private concert for
show attendees. The |
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conference
itself will be held at the Loews
Hollywood Hotel, but the Tuesday night
(April 1) concert will be staged at a
different private location that
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As
most music fans know, Stone Temple Pilots, fired
their original lead singer, Scott
Weiland, last year. However, they quickly
came up with an equally accomplished
replacement, getting Linkin Park's electrifying
lead singer, Chester Bennington, to take
on the same role with STP (hence the band's new
billing as Stone Temple Pilots with Chester
Bennington). Bennington, who was named one of Top
100 Heavy Metal vocalists of all time by Hit
Parader magazine, recorded his first
tracks with STP last fall, including a five-song
EP called High
Rise that were released on the
band's own label. 
Stone
Temple Pilots with Chester Bennington (Bennington
is 2nd from left).
(Photo
from StoneTemplePilots.com) As
a domain guy, I was curious as to whether or not
Bennington owned his own name in .com.
Many high profile artists do but there have been
many notable exceptions. In the music world, Bruce
Springsteen is probably the most famous one.
Springsteen's official site is at
BruceSpringsteen.net because a
"fan" owns the .com (the fan, Jeff
Burgar, still has the domain after
Springsteen's camp tried to take it away in an unsuccessful
UDRP attempt back in 2001).
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Parking
page at ChesterBennington.com |
A
quick check of the public Whois record
shows that Bennington doesn't have his
.com either - it belongs to Archeo
Domains, who was recently spun off
from Marchex. Since the domain was
registered in 2003 (when Bennington
had already been with Linkin Park for
three years) it looks like the name would
have originally been registered by Yun
Ye, who sold his Ultimate Search
portfolio to Marchex for $164 million
two years later.
Though
Bennington doesn't have
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he
is still pretty easy to find on the web,
as he has what is probably the next best
name for his personal site, CBennington.com.
Of course, if he wanted to go all in
he could apply for a .Bennngton new
gTLD when ICANN opens up another round of
new gTLD applications. Chester.Bennington
would certainly look cool but with the
$185,000 application fee for new
gTLDs, I'm sure there are other things he
would rather spend his money on. For one,
Bennington is a big supporter of charitable
causes, including two featured on his
home page - PowerTheWorld.org
and MusicForRelief.org.
You're a good man Chester B. |
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