A student taking a course in cyberspace law learns how Lucasfilm bought out one domain…
The Wookiee costume is a bit much – is a lame domain like PhantomMenaceNews.com worth a Wookiee costume? I don’t think so.
Also, the domain in question seems to be not owned by Lucasfilm at the moment. (Going to the actual site will get you ads and popups. Nothing NSFW, just annoying.) And this list of websites from Echo Station (not updated since August 1999, as good a time capsule as I could find) lists that the site had no DNS (translation: not pointing anywhere) at the time. The Wayback Machine is more of the same.
The law firm does exist. But the story as a whole I’m giving a hearty ‘maybe.’
The fact that Lucasfilm doesn’t own Yoda.com is a bigger deal in my book. Then again, that’s a cool cat at that site.
Wow, Yoda.com is… weird.
Y’know, it kinda wouldn’t surprise me that they would have to go through this approach. But I kinda thought it would be fandom lore long before now if this is how LFL bought out the domain.
Still. An amusing anecdote about THE POWER of Lucasfilm.