I guess there is a difference between successfully bringing up an action 
and standing a snowball's chance in hell of winning it on the strength 
of that sole registration fact, but I'm kind of hoping that registering 
is not the only threshold ....


On 2015-03-27 7:26 AM, Andres Guadamuz wrote:
> I had a class today exactly about this. I was joking to the students 
> if I should consider buying andresguadamuz.sucks and 
> andresguadamuz.porn, and we had an extensive discussion about whether 
> the above would be defamatory if someone else did it. Most of the 
> class thought that you could successfully bring up an action in 
> England for defamation just for registering the domain.
>
> I tend to agree.