Connery
Gets Unbeatable DotCom Offer Scotland’s
most famous non-liquid asset has had an unbeatable offer
from an American fan who is a cyber squatter.
Chad Prater, a lifelong James Bond fan, wants to give
Sean Connery his name back.
seanconnery.com is a web domain name bought up by Chad
as soon as he realised it was available. It is a potentially
valuable address and considerable sums have been known
to change hands to secure such sites, but they may be
put to all kinds of uses not connected with the personalities
they are named after.
Cyber squatters used Billy Connolly’s name to advertise
a stud dog and Madonna’s name was used by a porn
site.
However in true Bond fashion, Connery was neither shaken
nor stirred at any possible prospect of his name being
used as a marketing gimmick. Chad Prater has been chasing
after his superstar hero for two years to offer him the
site.
Now he has made his final offer, through Scotland’s
biggest selling newspaper, the Daily Record and it is
an offer no thrifty Scot could refuse. He wants to give
the star his own dotcom name, for free!
Potter
Cat In Catnap Fear Knut,
the silver tabby cat, who regularly stalked the cloisters
of Durham Cathedral in the Harry Potter film, has gone
missing from his Brighton home.
Knut starred in the film alongside Dame Maggie Smith,
as the professor who transforms herself into a cat to
stalk the corridors of the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft
and Wizardry.
After returning from filming in Durham and living the
life of a pampered celebrity, Knut has apparently decided
he’s had enough of the good life and gone walkabout.
More worrying for his owner Ulrike Darbon, is the possibility
that Knut has been kidnapped.
His owner says "He settled back to homelife fine
after he came back from filming, and had been back for
a few months before he disappeared."
Apparently a cat similar in appearance to Knut has been
seen in a Bacardi Breezer advert, has prompted demand
from people who would like to own a cat of this distinctive
colour.
Ulrike Darbon says, "Apparently, since that advert,
breeders are getting lots of calls from people who want
one. I’m worried someone saw him, thought he was
attractive and took him home. He might be a star, but
to us he’s just our cat and we would like him back."
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