On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 01:08:43 +0000, Guy Macon
<http://www.GuyMacon.com/> wrote:

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>Peter J Ross wrote:
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>>Sparticle <all@sea.com> wrote:
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>>> I need to obtain .cn and .hk domain names to protect our brand name.
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>>It's perfectly possible that your brand name is already used
>>legitimately in China or Hong Kong by other people. They may even have
>>been using it longer than you.
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>>> Can anybody direct me to a reputable reseller in Europe or US.
>>> Netbenefit, (where I usually register domains) don't seem allow
>>> registration of these suffixes.
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>>Unless your company has offices in China and Hong Kong, I can think of
>>no reason for you to have any .cn or .hk domain names.
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>I can.
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>If your product has potential and a unique name, you may want to
>grab up that name in many domains just so someone else doesn't
>do so and pretend to be your official representative. You don't
>see microsoft letting microsoft.cn or microsoft.hk go to someone
>else. If you know that your company is about to introduvce a
>new and unique name like Exxon, buying that name in all domains
>is cheap insurance.
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>to the OP; whole grabbing productname.hk and productname.cn,
>consider grabbing productnamesucks.com just so that nobody
>else can.

We where too late, our brand name has been taken by someone
else in china and now they are presenting themselves as a company
selling products in the same retail sector. There seems to be nothing
one can do to combat this form of brandname/company piracy...

I wonder what would happen if somone in china bought macdonalds.cn
and opened a bunch of shops selling burgers in Beijing....They have
lots of clout so it will be stopped.

If you are not as big as that, you have no recourse.

I think this kind of domain/brand name stealing is disgusting...

Is there anything that can be done about cyber-squatting? The .eu has
been grabbed and squatted on also...


Sparticle.