Sparticle wrote:
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>Guy Macon <http://www.GuyMacon.com/> wrote:
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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.
>>
>>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...

Actually you are wrong. There is a lot that you can do if you
know how. Lets start with the basics; what domains do you own
and what domains does someone else own that you want? (you
should have no problem revealing this, having already grabbed
all the open domain names that you want.) Next, what is the
trademark and/or servicemark status of your brand name in the
various countries that you are targetting? I can't advise
you without knowing the details of your case.


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Guy Macon
<http://www.GuyMacon.com/>