On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:12:09 +0000, Guy Macon
<http://www.GuyMacon.com/> wrote:

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>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.
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>>>to the OP; whole grabbing productname.hk and productname.cn,
>>>consider grabbing productnamesucks.com just so that nobody
>>>else can.
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>>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...
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>>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.
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>>If you are not as big as that, you have no recourse.
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>>I think this kind of domain/brand name stealing is disgusting...
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>>Is there anything that can be done about cyber-squatting? The .eu has
>>been grabbed and squatted on also...
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>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.

So there is a way of dealing with cyber-squatting originating in
another country?? The guys who has our .com and .eu told us to $%#%*
off..

That was just in Germany....Let alone the what the Chinese say who
have even less by way of ethic.

S