Comments on: How To Protect Your Trademark During The FaceBook Landrush http://www.thedomains.com/2009/06/11/how-to-protect-your-name-or-trademark-during-the-facebook-landrush/ Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:38:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Stephen K http://www.thedomains.com/2009/06/11/how-to-protect-your-name-or-trademark-during-the-facebook-landrush/comment-page-1/#comment-20195 Stephen K Sat, 03 Oct 2009 08:05:03 +0000 http://www.thedomains.com/?p=3706#comment-20195 I have registered a username as a domain on Facebook but now I have a band page with the same name and want to transfer the domain name to the band page - How can I do it ? This seems to be a problem on Facebook. Is there a contact page for Facebook to do this transfer? Any suggestions greatly appreciated I have registered a username as a domain on Facebook but now I have a band page with the same name and want to transfer the domain name to the band page – How can I do it ? This seems to be a problem on Facebook.

Is there a contact page for Facebook to do this transfer?

Any suggestions greatly appreciated

]]> By: Adam http://www.thedomains.com/2009/06/11/how-to-protect-your-name-or-trademark-during-the-facebook-landrush/comment-page-1/#comment-15233 Adam Fri, 12 Jun 2009 03:03:06 +0000 http://www.thedomains.com/?p=3706#comment-15233 D. .. . let 'em charge, the beauty of that is you just buy your own .com and redirect Facebook.yourname.com to the facebook page and twitter.yourname.com to the twitter page. . . right ;) ? D. .. . let ‘em charge, the beauty of that is you just buy your own .com and redirect Facebook.yourname.com to the facebook page and twitter.yourname.com to the twitter page. . . right ;) ?

]]> By: D http://www.thedomains.com/2009/06/11/how-to-protect-your-name-or-trademark-during-the-facebook-landrush/comment-page-1/#comment-15232 D Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:49:51 +0000 http://www.thedomains.com/?p=3706#comment-15232 There is one problem with these names I can see - you do not own it, Facebook (Twitter etc.) does. They are like registry and registrar without any legislative above them. They can and WILL start charging fees one day...whatever fees they want...I am sure all this is hidden somewhere in the TOS There is one problem with these names I can see – you do not own it, Facebook (Twitter etc.) does. They are like registry and registrar without any legislative above them. They can and WILL start charging fees one day…whatever fees they want…I am sure all this is hidden somewhere in the TOS

]]> By: MHB http://www.thedomains.com/2009/06/11/how-to-protect-your-name-or-trademark-during-the-facebook-landrush/comment-page-1/#comment-15230 MHB Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:43:24 +0000 http://www.thedomains.com/?p=3706#comment-15230 Another take on this release: http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202431398326&Facebooks_imminent_username_registration_raises_risks_of_cybersquatting_&slreturn=1 Another take on this release:

http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202431398326&Facebooks_imminent_username_registration_raises_risks_of_cybersquatting_&slreturn=1

]]> By: David Steele is a eunuch http://www.thedomains.com/2009/06/11/how-to-protect-your-name-or-trademark-during-the-facebook-landrush/comment-page-1/#comment-15225 David Steele is a eunuch Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:45:13 +0000 http://www.thedomains.com/?p=3706#comment-15225 So do you own the TM "the domains" ? You prob do, so just wondering do you think that it is original and no one should have "the domains" anywhere in an article or domain? (lol) Are you saying that people start creating more meaningless trademarks to secure their facebook names and create more lawsuits and UDRPs? Let's face it they are just words. No one should own certain phrases, and it's just little meaningless squabbles that really should not be governed by REAL law. Think of the future, or think back to when Asprin was a trademark. Now it is a generic phrase. But at the time they would send C&Ds to whoever used their name on another pill bottle. BUT NOW IT'S OKAY. So do you think the internet is STAGNANT? They are just words, att is just at with an extra T. It's not THAT creative, it's not like they invented LETTERS. They just need a word to brand. Brands come and go, so saying that all brands deserve their facebook is shear rhetoric. Look at blackberry, they filed a massive lawsuit (and won) for domains containing the word blackberry... BUT WTF IS A BLACKBERRY? It used to be a fruit, now it is a phone... WTF . Seriously WTF. No Berkens seriously stop defending TMs and frivolous archiac outdated laws. Stop saying cybersquatting is wrong. It cannot even be defined! Get off the bandwagon and start thinking like a revolutionary, and not some corporate hearded sheep. FFS. But facebook is already on the cusp of fading in to the abyss, it's the next myspace soon to be deadpooled. Then it will be another deleted domain 15 years from now on snapnames. But all those C&Ds they send out to facebookblahblah.com are well worth it now. Got to defend that brand! So do you own the TM “the domains” ? You prob do, so just wondering do you think that it is original and no one should have “the domains” anywhere in an article or domain? (lol) Are you saying that people start creating more meaningless trademarks to secure their facebook names and create more lawsuits and UDRPs? Let’s face it they are just words. No one should own certain phrases, and it’s just little meaningless squabbles that really should not be governed by REAL law.

Think of the future, or think back to when Asprin was a trademark. Now it is a generic phrase. But at the time they would send C&Ds to whoever used their name on another pill bottle. BUT NOW IT’S OKAY. So do you think the internet is STAGNANT?

They are just words, att is just at with an extra T. It’s not THAT creative, it’s not like they invented LETTERS. They just need a word to brand. Brands come and go, so saying that all brands deserve their facebook is shear rhetoric.

Look at blackberry, they filed a massive lawsuit (and won) for domains containing the word blackberry… BUT WTF IS A BLACKBERRY? It used to be a fruit, now it is a phone… WTF . Seriously WTF. No Berkens seriously stop defending TMs and frivolous archiac outdated laws. Stop saying cybersquatting is wrong. It cannot even be defined! Get off the bandwagon and start thinking like a revolutionary, and not some corporate hearded sheep. FFS.

But facebook is already on the cusp of fading in to the abyss, it’s the next myspace soon to be deadpooled. Then it will be another deleted domain 15 years from now on snapnames. But all those C&Ds they send out to facebookblahblah.com are well worth it now. Got to defend that brand!

]]> By: owen frager http://www.thedomains.com/2009/06/11/how-to-protect-your-name-or-trademark-during-the-facebook-landrush/comment-page-1/#comment-15222 owen frager Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:41:33 +0000 http://www.thedomains.com/?p=3706#comment-15222 The fine print says you need to have at least 1000 fans to qualify to apply for the name, which is even a bigger problem for trademark holders The fine print says you need to have at least 1000 fans to qualify to apply for the name, which is even a bigger problem for trademark holders

]]> By: MHB http://www.thedomains.com/2009/06/11/how-to-protect-your-name-or-trademark-during-the-facebook-landrush/comment-page-1/#comment-15216 MHB Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:43:22 +0000 http://www.thedomains.com/?p=3706#comment-15216 Yes Or the name of your business or site Yes

Or the name of your business or site

]]> By: FaceBook http://www.thedomains.com/2009/06/11/how-to-protect-your-name-or-trademark-during-the-facebook-landrush/comment-page-1/#comment-15214 FaceBook Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:09:40 +0000 http://www.thedomains.com/?p=3706#comment-15214 What are the benefits of having a username/ddomain name ? Do you mean like facebook.com/gary ? What are the benefits of having a username/ddomain name ? Do you mean like facebook.com/gary ?

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