Comments on: UDRP Watch: Ping.me, GoldenGlobes.com, and NameJet Typo

By: Domain Name Wire » News » Ping Golf Loses Ping.me Domain Name Arbitration - The Domain Industry's News Source

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:52:50 +0000

[...] I saw that Ping.me was in arbitration at National Arbitration Forum, I correctly assumed that Ping Golf was behind the dispute. Ping Golf has been aggressive acquiring other domains including “Ping” in the [...]

By: legal free advice

legal free advice — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:21:22 +0000

I still don’t understand why people seem so eager to accept laws against free speech. I can understand the idiots in government wanting it because it enables them to stay in power, but the people should have voted out anyone who voted for BCRA. That one item is why I will never vote for McCain. I may end up not casting a vote, but if McCain gets the nomination he won’t get my vote. How can a person trust anyone who has so little regard for our basic rights?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:23:21 +0000

Assuming it’s Ping Golf, the only way they’d get it is if the owner put up a parking page that had golf links. Otherwise I’d be shocked if Ping won.

By: Bidder

Bidder — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:28:33 +0000

I even tried to reg this name. It was already taken. Ping me, is as common a phrase as saying . Especially in the work place. We used it all the time. This is absurd.

Bidder

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:55:13 +0000

@ Chart name – yes, and the whois shows the owner as “Pingify Networks”…

By: chart name

chart name — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:06:37 +0000

Ping-me is as common in the tech world as feed-me is in a restaurant. I hope the owner of ping.me wins and sues the holy heck out of ping golf for this obvious harassment.

By: Rob Sequin

Rob Sequin — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:05:59 +0000

This is a good post.

Keep us posted on the big picture so we can stay updated without all the legal details.