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Domainfest Lands Stone Temple Pilots With Chester Bennington But Who Landed ChesterBennington.com?

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 

 

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 won't be disclosed until check-in. 

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).

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 ChesterBennington.com 

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.

(Posted February 17, 2014)


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