Facebook, Inc. has just filed a UDRP with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to gain control of the domain name Facebook.info
The domain Facebook.info was 1st registered in 2004.
The domain is not parked, but rather has a choice of taking you to its Twitter account or to something its calls Forum.Facebook.info
Many of the posts on the “forum” have such titles as “Copy Breitling Emergency Watch For Sale”, download Friends With Benefits, and “Watch Bad Teacher Online” certainly things Facebook, Inc wouldn’t want to appear to be involved in.
It look like the owner of the domain name has owned the domain and used it in the same fashion since at least 2005 and other than its IPO I’m not sure what has changed that has caused Facebook to finally wake up and file a UDRP on the domain.
The case number is D2012-1008
FB. Big waste of time and only encourages social isolation
Facebook is the world’s largest commercial security and privacy hazard.
total “BullS”
cant believe they waited that long
According to my domain crystal ball, Facebook will be like mySpace/yahoo- gone downhill within 5 yrs after the luster is gone or a big security breach.
Almost 8 years?……………..There should be a timetable for filing a UDRP.
good for facebook. It shouldn’t matter how long you wait if it’s a clear squatter using Facebook stuff on the site and selling watches and illegal movies. Stop defending idiocy. Domainers need to learn to stop blindly defending squatters- it’s bad for us. You need to call a spade a spade in these situations.
AllFacebook dot com has no problem using a TM.
Does anyone know the answer to this:
If Facebook.info was run purely as an information site giving updates to changes to FB etc and no money was made of the back of it, would a UDRP most likely find in their favour, as with Sucks domains?
Thanks in advance to any answer.
“AllFacebook dot com has no problem using a TM.”
also InsideFacebook (and other forums and blogs) uses the TM in its name, but that can happen ONLY because FB has no interest to sue the blogs that promote its SN
There are many sites that provide Facebook fans to fan pages and have Facebook in domain name, wondering how about them? Overall they promote the SN too but make money with it.
LOL. Facebook contacted me too yesterday before they went public about facebookblog.us. They want me to take it offline, not use it or sell it. I also have facebookstocks.net and facebookstocks.info. We will see if they will be coming after me too.
Hipster –
Facebook has a lot of money to buy all the justice they need – and a lot of pissed off share holders that got sold a bill of goods on the IPO.
Your domains are TM ingringements and I would recommend cancelling them or taking them down and not renewing them. Sorry.
you can be sure that as facebook starts its aol-like descent into irrelevance, whenever that may be – perhaps years from now – they will ramp up litigation.
i expect facebook to be one of the most litigious companies the web has ever seen. they are spreading their tentacles everywhere possible. of course i hope i am wrong. but one need only look at the type of suits that aol has filed to see what is possible.