RE: FN-FORUM: Patabugen.com, domain name issues!

date posted 9th December 2005 14:40

If the word is unique and you "wrote it or created it first" does that
not give you copyright ? ;)=20

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To: Andy Macnaughton-Jones
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: Patabugen.com, domain name issues!


its an advertising company just squatting, i dont want to sell mine and
want thiers. guess id better get in contact with them.

thanks :)
Patabugen

>
> On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 12:39:15PM -0000, [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>>
>> Hey,
>> My online allias for the past 6ish years has been Patabugen, and to=20
>> this day i havent found anyone or anything with the same name so iv=20
>> assumed its pretty unique, with almost everything i do online its my=20
>> name. About 5 years ago i bought Patabugen.co.uk, for my website=20
>> which has been up and down around 50 uniques a day for a few years Im

>> no hugely established web something but it is a unique name which is=20
>> known to quite a few people around the web/world.
>> Recently it came to my attention that some web advertising company=20
>> has bought www.patabugen.com, i noticed it when i went to buy it.
>>
>> Do i have any right to the domain or is it a matter of calling them=20
>> up and asking to buy it from them?
>
> You have no right at all.
>
> If you want to buy it then you have to agree a price with him.
>
> What is the guy using it for ? Is it being used ?
> If the guy is cybersquatting (ie just hanging on to it in the hope=20
> that you will give him lots of $$$ to buy it from him), or trying to=20
> pass himself off as you then you may have some grounds for forcibly=20
> grabbing it off him; otherwise I would not bother.
>
>
> There is a phcomp.com, they don't bother me & I don't bother them --=20
> nothing to do with each other.
>
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