Comments on: Domain Name Goldrush http://hedonist666.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/domain-goldrush/ Food, culture and general silliness. Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:19:01 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: hedonist666 http://hedonist666.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/domain-goldrush/#comment-21 hedonist666 Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:55:07 +0000 http://hedonist666.wordpress.com/?p=49#comment-21 Well actually it is exactly spelled as part of our company name. The issue at hand is that there must be dozens of companies out there with a similar name and there would be no way to prove that these people registered the domain name purposefully to pretend to be us ;) which would be the applicable rule governing .eu names. There are no rules as such for bulk registering names simply for speculation purposes. Anyway, after I told the guy in a subtle way what I thought of the quote, he crashed to 200 Euro ;) Good luck on the .asia domains then; are you going to play? ;) Well actually it is exactly spelled as part of our company name. The issue at hand is that there must be dozens of companies out there with a similar name and there would be no way to prove that these people registered the domain name purposefully to pretend to be us ;) which would be the applicable rule governing .eu names. There are no rules as such for bulk registering names simply for speculation purposes. Anyway, after I told the guy in a subtle way what I thought of the quote, he crashed to 200 Euro ;)

Good luck on the .asia domains then; are you going to play? ;)

]]> By: odzer http://hedonist666.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/domain-goldrush/#comment-19 odzer Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:18:37 +0000 http://hedonist666.wordpress.com/?p=49#comment-19 We have something similar brewing up due to the introduction of .asia domains. They are relatively cheap for now and so we have a mini gold rush I would say. 888 Euro is ridiculous price! Its amazing how they can get away with this, I think there are laws that prevent that kind of thing but since the domain you seek is not spelt exactly like the company where you work I am not so sure of what legal muscle you can flex. May be you should make them a lower counter offer and see what happens.... We have something similar brewing up due to the introduction of .asia domains. They are relatively cheap for now and so we have a mini gold rush I would say. 888 Euro is ridiculous price! Its amazing how they can get away with this, I think there are laws that prevent that kind of thing but since the domain you seek is not spelt exactly like the company where you work I am not so sure of what legal muscle you can flex. May be you should make them a lower counter offer and see what happens….

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