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minusonebit · 10-13-2006, 11:01 PM

Not all trademark owners police thier marks well, some dont find out for weeks, months or even years down the road, and others choose not to do anything about it until the offending site gets very popular or causes a problem.

I once had a domain of a major telephone company (an RBOC) and the domain was "CompanyNameCable.com", when all of the RBOCs were playing around with the idea of this new thing called DSL (a friend of mine registered "CompanyNameDSL.com" and started his own site) and also IPTV and they were thinking of getting into the cable business as well. I used the domain to bash the company. That telephone company didnt bother to do anything (other than send legal threats, which were ignored in the order recived) and they didnt sue me and my friend until I was ranking #1 on Google and they were #2 for "Company Cable".

10-13-2006, 11:01 PM
minusonebit So Fucking Banned Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: [email protected] Posts: 7,391	Not all trademark owners police thier marks well, some dont find out for weeks, months or even years down the road, and others choose not to do anything about it until the offending site gets very popular or causes a problem. I once had a domain of a major telephone company (an RBOC) and the domain was "CompanyNameCable.com", when all of the RBOCs were playing around with the idea of this new thing called DSL (a friend of mine registered "CompanyNameDSL.com" and started his own site) and also IPTV and they were thinking of getting into the cable business as well. I used the domain to bash the company. That telephone company didnt bother to do anything (other than send legal threats, which were ignored in the order recived) and they didnt sue me and my friend until I was ranking #1 on Google and they were #2 for "Company Cable".