Britains Got Talent 2009 - Susan Bolye
' Yes ' definitely to Susan Boyle , 47 of age. The latest star born from a village in Britain.
The phenomenal popularity of Susan Boyle has led to dozens of websites being set up by fans and cybersquatters looking to cash in on the global interest in the Britain's Got Talent star.
Since Boyle appeared on the launch show of the ITV1 talent search series on 11 April more than 30 websites have sprung up that use her name to try attract web users looking for the video of her performance and more information about her.
Boyle, an unemployed 47-year-old Scottish charity worker, has become an unlikely star after her rendition of I Dreamed a Dream from the musical Les Misérables became a global YouTube hit and attracted the attention of broadcasters, websites and newspapers around the world.
While Boyle does not have an official web presence herself, according to research conducted by web domain company Sedo, fans and cybersquatters have registered websites in her name across Europe and the US and in seemingly unlikely countries such as Turkey.
The domain name SusanBoyle.co.uk was registered on 10 April and put together quickly as a fan site.
"Every time a new star like Susan Boyle is born there is always a huge surge in new registration activity," said Nora Nanayakkara, the director of business development at Sedo.
"While the new domains offer overwhelming support for the new star ... fan sites should be careful not to overstep the lines between a fan site and a money-making site."
An unlikely beneficiary of the global interest in the Britain's Got Talent star has been Texas-based artist Susan K Boyle, owner of the SusanBoyle.com domain, who has seen a huge increase in visits in the past couple of weeks.
"I can only hope there are one or two art lovers/buyers among them," Boyle said in an email to a tech website late last week. -- guardian.co.uk
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