incrediBILL - 11:53 pm on Apr 17, 2005 (gmt 0)

I think the real answer here is if you're in business to spend the $325.00 and file a trademark for your domain name so when some big company tries to introduce a new product and stomps on your name you have the backing of the USPTO office to collect from them instead. Then you spend the $35 to copyright your content which is more likely to result in theft than the domain name and in my experience a more frequent paying lottery ticket.

Seriously, $325.00 isn't that much for a lottery ticket considering most people buy $5 quick picks it's equivalent to 65 $5 quick picks with a better chance of winning :)

BTW, I've won 5 out of 6 on a lottery ticket once, so I know something about the "chances of winning". They almost had to cart me off to the ER at the point when I thought I had $20M for about 15 seconds before the fact that the last number didn't match sunk in and that was almost a separate cardiac related ER event in itself. Before I get a bunch of sticky mail it only paid about $1,500 as the 5 out of 6 prize pool had over 100 winners.

On the flipside, they almost had to cart me off to the ER from anfer when I found some idiot stole my content and made 10 clones of my web site - but he was a winning lottery ticket >:)