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#1
07-22-2009, 10:17 AM
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Domain Name Violations?California I have owned a domain name since 1995. in 2000 British Petroleum (BP) wrote me a letter asking if I would be interested in selling the name, we'll call it [url]www.bpxyz.com[/url]. At the time we had been spending about $70,000 a year on catalogs which had the domain name printed on them for the previous 5 years, we had also advertised the domain in many print publications and had favorable positioning on the search engines of the time. Stating all these examples I told them that it would be difficult but would consider an offer of about $250,000. I never received a reply. Recently I found several domains registered by BP which are my exact domain name with different country extensions! Such as [url]www.bpxyz.com.ru[/url], [url]www.bpxyz.com.pl[/url], etc. My exact domain name, including the .com the a country code at the end! Can they do that? |
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#2
07-22-2009, 10:26 AM
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| First: You don't ever "own" the domain name. Second: Do you have the money to fight BP on international level?
__________________ * * The information I gave is based on my 7 seconds of research on Google. Review the information yourself to make an informed decision. Communication is KEY - 10 mins of talking now can save you months of headaches later! Masterfully stating the obvious to the oblivious! (Thanks SP!) Tell it like it is! When all else fails, make up a statistic!  Gender references shall apply equally to the other gender. I will not correct gender mistakes (unless I want to) |
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