It would also tell you who owns those fields so you'd know whom to call.
Americans understand that if you own 80 percent of a company (like the federal government owns of AIG), you are in the position to tell senior management what to do, and if you can't, you need a new lawyer, because you wrote a bad contract.
Whoever owns the company, you still maintain your soft-corner for the baby and constantly keep track of what is going in.
Do you believe Apple owns the image of the old retro phone reciever, Verhoven asks.
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Start with a family member or friend you know who owns a business, and ask them the questions above.
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But with 105 million names already in use, chances are someone else already owns it. (You can find out who they are at www.domaintools.com.) As with tangible real estate, if you want something truly valuable, you'll probably have to pay up--there is a robust secondary market for domain names, as Fisher pleasantly discovered.
Ask anyone who owns a business what happens if you borrow and spend more than you take in as revenue.
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Another option is the Schwab U.S. Broad Market ETF (SCHB, 31), which owns 1, 500 stocks and will cost you six basis points.
People have their favorite lobstermen, and there is a lot of romance associated with ordering from the guy who owns the boat, or the lobster pound you once visited on vacation, but the truth is that Maine lobster is Maine lobster, and it is all the best lobster you can get.
"Nobody owns what's on the seabed but if you've got gear on the area it's first come, first served and that's the nature of the beast, " he added.
Comcast owns the NHL high-def broadcast rights and you would think that they would want to provide their subscribers with the most possible high-def NHL content but it all boils down to one thing: money.
Unless of course you are the one who (a) owns the oil or (b) owns a lot of stock in the oil companies.
The legal controversy that has arisen is this: once you upload a photo to a social media site, who owns it?
If a company owns IP and produces and sells a product using it, how do you judge whether the revenue is from the IP, from manufacturing, or from sale?
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It seems like he owns the economy no matter -- and dysfunction in Washington no matter what you've tried to do.
What determines whether you play a dangerous floater like huge serving Ivo Karlovic, who owns wins over Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic, or a qualifier like Bradley Klahn, ranked 489 in the world?
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Full disclosure demands that we tell you, given the timing of our survey, no one who actually owns an iPad Mini participated.
Yet you'd be hard-pressed to believe that the high-scoring wine critic owns a stash of B's.
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You might have read some stuff about this guy Carl Icahn and that other group that owns lots of shares.
You won't see him wearing sunglasses, no matter the weather, says John Day, who owns a contracting business in Maryland and is an avid carriage collector.
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