right or just plain wrong?
I have had this site for like 4 years.
fishseekers.com
The part I am concern about is
http://www.fishseekers.com/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/Ultimate.cgi
I just came across
http://www.fishseekers.org/forum/default.asp
he only recently got the domain fishseekers.org
i would not mind if he sold fishing products or something else not related to me.
To me it he is trying to use fishseekers to confuse people into using his site.
the season is starting and I am concern I might lose cleints and visitors to him.
Maybe I am wrong... how bad is this?
Any thoughts on this? how should i handle this matter?
My freind told me to add the tm on the logo last nite before that I just had all right reserved on the bottom of page.
The Webmistress posted this at 07:54 — 28th April 2003.
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Have you actually registered the trade mark? Unfortunately unless you buy all permutations of a domain, someone else can still legally get them.
Busy posted this at 10:26 — 28th April 2003.
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I think this sort of thing is called typo sitting (like domain sitting) people do it all the time, things like yaho.com, hotmai.com ... trying to get the stray links, and in some cases try make some money selling you the name.
I have same problem with one of my sites, have a dot com and program called the same thing
andy206uk posted this at 11:16 — 28th April 2003.
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we did an experiment along these lines at work for some press coverage. We registered lastmunite.com (or something like that) and put up a website there. We got 1000's of hits everyday.
We didnt do it for any gain, and rightfully forwarded people to the correct address but we got some decent press articles with our domain name in it and it helped raise awareness of typo squatting.
Its nasty and morally wrong, but at the end of the day its perfectly legal.
Andy
The Webmistress posted this at 11:23 — 28th April 2003.
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A client of mine recently phoned me up to ask about this situation as he'd been contacted by a company wanting to use the other variations of the domain he's got (nice of the other company to ask), which is his company name. He's a limited company so really no one else should be using his name so he decided to buy up every possible variation of his domain and redirect them on to his site.
Not much help but I thought I'd share
Julia - if life was meant to be easy Michael Angelo would have painted the floor....
Bluesteel posted this at 14:01 — 28th April 2003.
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no i did not TM the logo my freind had told i dont have to register TM just to put the tm on the logo.
but i would have to pay to get a register tm
Tommy
The Webmistress posted this at 14:21 — 28th April 2003.
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Anyone can put a TM symbol onto logos, etc but it doesn't mean anything and it certainly wont stop other people using the name, unless you do legal register the name!
Julia - if life was meant to be easy Michael Angelo would have painted the floor....
Bluesteel posted this at 14:32 — 28th April 2003.
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i called the the people who made the site and try and be nice about it they never hear of fishseekers.com and what was i offering them
i said at least you could give me a link back to my site in case people get confused and was looking for my site.
His reply was why in the world would i want to do that!
what else you offering?
we kept going back and forth i decided to hang up before i lost my temper.
Tommy
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