Company files complaint over sites that use its Flickr brand.
Yahoo has turned to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to help it shut down two X-rated sites that use Flickr in their domain names.
The company filed the complaint with WIPO over the domain names nastyflickr.com and nudeflickr.com, each of which lead to a web site containing adult photos. They each contain a logo that looks similar to the Flickr blue and red logo as well. They are owned by a Tacoma, Washington man.
This isn’t the first time Yahoo has gotten into a fight over the Flickr brand. In 2009 Yahoo sued AshantiPLC, which is owned in part by domain investor Sahar Sarid, over the domain name Flicker.com (without the missing ‘e’). Yahoo said that Ashanti had purchased Flicker.com for $55,000 in 2006 and had been flaunting the domain and the traffic it received. The company allegedly turned down a $700,000 offer for the domain.
Yahoo eventually settled the case and got the Flicker.com domain name.
It doesn’t surprise me one bit Andrew, after all, having any trademarked names in your domain is just asking for trouble.
Thanx for interesting tidbit about Sahar.
If you checked Elliot’s appraisal post comments yesterday, someone actually registered applecop.com (Read about the missing iPhone 5 prototype and cops issue).
For a minute I actually thought the headline meant Yahoo was taking a stand against X-rated sites but no its about protecting their money.
I have sent formal complaints to Yahoo spanning 6yrs. Although they respond with a canned response nothing is done. My complaint is receiving “confirmation emails” from porn ,sex, webcams groups on yahoo. Thank you for joining please confirm your membership.
Everytime I or a family member visit a yahoo game we receive several of these to our personal email. These sites are even advertising in the Yahoo Game lobbies. Other than sign in to our yahoo account we do not disclose our email and always use an alternative screename.
How do they obtain our email address? And no my pc is not infected. It doesnt happen anywhere but Yahoo multiplayer games. I have forwarded aprox. 175 emails and still it happens.
Sahar Sarid – 3213 Dover Rd Pompano Beach, FL 33062 – mugshots.com