.tv Can Anyone Read Italian?

[SKG]

I own LookUp dot tv, a premium TV name and I came across this site that has it plastered all over the homepage, see http://www.lookup.it/home1.htm

Can anyone translate what is on there? Looks like some free advertising for me Maybe they owned it before me and let it drop and never changed their website.

 

[DropLister]

i dont see anything at that page, and when i go to lookup.it it brings me to a blank /home3.htm

 

[projectlive]

The Digital Earthling and' an area of large interest that opens the doors to new technological sceneries and offers of services since to today difficult imaginable.

Lookup. tv invested a lot in the study of all ioc' that pertains the interactive applications DTT and in the preparation of tools of development

That they agreed the optimization of the code to safeguard of the precious transmissive band.

i see the site fine

and thats a pretty decent translation

rep? :P

 

[Joe123]

I also got a blank page when I tried to visit. However, I found the title in the following result page interesting: http://www.google.com/search?q=http...eid=mozilla&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

 

[dottvfan]

mate, you've got a clear case of someone else thinking that they own your domain name.

Suggest you put it through the page translator on http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr and click on any link on the homepage to see for yourself.

On the upside (assuming you haven't stolen their TM), the easiest sale that you are ever going to make!

Pick a number between 1 and a 100 and add 3 zero's!

see also http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.lookup.it

They have owned www.lookup.it for a while. I think you should definitely get in touch. Don't worry a lot of Italians speak English.

 

[SKG]

mate, you've got a clear case of someone else thinking that they own your domain name.

Suggest you put it through the page translator on http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr and click on any link on the homepage to see for yourself.

On the upside (assuming you haven't stolen their TM), the easiest sale that you are ever going to make!

Pick a number between 1 and a 100 and add 3 zero's!

see also http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.lookup.it

They have owned www.lookup.it for a while. I think you should definitely get in touch. Don't worry a lot of Italians speak English.

Thanks Grant. I checked the US patent site and I am free and clear. I do not know how to check international though. What are the odds of something like this happening, I still cannot believe it. Traffic was very slow, maybe 2 or 3 uniques per day, but in the last 5 days I am getting near 20 per day which is why I started looking around.

Also, I tried the translator and it will not do it for some reason.

 

[lambda]

Be careful: at the end of the page stand "lookup.tv è un marchio registrato" which means lookup.tv is a registered mark

And the wayback machine doesn't show they owned lookup.tv before: Link

 

[SKG]

Be careful: at the end of the page stand "lookup.tv è un marchio registrato" which means lookup.tv is a registered mark

And the wayback machine doesn't show they owned lookup.tv before: Link

Thanks for that info. I am asking myself why would they trademark something they do not own? If in fact it is trademarked.

 

[RageD]

Ok.. I am a fluent speaker of Italian.. At the end of the page is the traditional spot for a user to put their copyright or trademarks in.. In that, they are indeed stating they own lookup.tv. I wouldn't say be too worried about:

Lookup.tv è un marchio registrato. Tutti i diritti sono riservati e ne è vietata la riproduzione anche parziale.

which in English means:

Lookup.tv is a registered mark. All the rights are reserved and it is prohibited the reproduction also partial.

(At the end it means it is not allowed to reproduce any of the page/content) If you registered the domain lookup.tv, it is yours, no questions asked. If they did not take care of their domain and let it drop, that's on them. You won it fair and square. There are many ways to prove that it is yours. Public WHOIS being one way. If they continue to press the issue (and you don't plan to develop it) I would suggest what someone else did.. Start bargaining. There should be no questions that the domain is yours. If you login to your account (wherever it is registered) and have the access to edit the domain and do what you wish with it, it's yours. They may have owned it, but it dropped and you happened to pick it up. And most Italians do indeed speak English. Sometimes not very well, but they speak it enough to where a English-fluent person would have the ability to understand them. So your best bet is to negotiate, and if they want it that bad, they'll pay up. If they happen to not speak English, you can try a translator, or come back here I'll help you out!

Good luck with this man,

-RageD

 

[SKG]

Thanks RageD, I may need your help when the time comes.