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Comment on Chicago Tribune wants to take down “Occupy” sites by Sue Basko

Sue Basko — Sat, 26 May 2012 20:25:03 +0000

ALSO Chicago Tribune has no hold over the word “Chicago” or the word “Tribune,” just the phrase “Chicago Tribune”, and it looks like they never bothered to register trademark on it as a website. There are dozens of news outlets using the word “Tribune” Can WIPO be used as a way around trademark law? Not that I know of.

Comment on Chicago Tribune wants to take down “Occupy” sites by Sue Basko

Sue Basko — Sat, 26 May 2012 17:21:30 +0000

This has to do with trademark law, regarding use of the words “Chicago Tribune.” Oddly — my search of the US trademark database shows the Chicago Tribune never bothered to register that name for a website. That’s probably why they are complaining to WIPO and not filing a trademark complaint — because they can’t file one.

Comment on Groupon registers domains for payment system and POS by Jason

Jason — Sat, 26 May 2012 15:22:16 +0000

SW,

You are spot-on especially if you are visiting the GRPN board on Yahoo, endless amount of bashers.

However due to Groupon’s global user base, I’m sure they have endless metrics on their user base and payment options they prefer to use.

PayPal is most likely their most popular choice and it only makes sense for their to capture that 3% change instead of PayPal.

When you have 100 million users and assuming 50% of their users are active…This is a boatload of pure-profit percentage of sales being left on the table for the taking.

It makes business sense.

Comment on Chicago Tribune wants to take down “Occupy” sites by Core

Core — Sat, 26 May 2012 04:02:35 +0000

I can’t see any free speech claim here (you could maybe claim that if these were protest sites against the Chicago Tribune, but they are not).

And trademarksucks.com domains don’t infringe on trademarks in the first place, nobody is going to think a blog called thechicagotribunesucks.com is actually a chicago tribune webpage.

Comment on Groupon registers domains for payment system and POS by S.W.

S.W. — Sat, 26 May 2012 03:54:13 +0000

Having frequented the message boards for GRPN, that same domain name phrase has often been used to describe the stock’s performance by the followers. Either way, it’s quite the strategic pickup.

Comment on What domains Kanye West and others bought this week by 2e

2e — Fri, 25 May 2012 23:15:50 +0000

I am sure that the seller of Injustice.com did not know that he is selling the domain name to Warner Bros when he accepted $7000.
for this great name

Comment on Why I switched to GoDaddy hosting by SL

SL — Fri, 25 May 2012 20:15:52 +0000

Something to be aware of wrt how Godaddy handles copyright allegations (via DMCA). They differ from other hosts in that they will disable an *entire* site upon notification, as opposed to just the offending media/content. Interesting story from the great state of Texas:

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/05/25/1744246/photographer-threatened-with-legal-action-after-asserting-his-copyright