Email from Ebay!

[Broker]

Over the domain name

LumberToneBay.com

Basically said do not sell or offer to sell domain or they will sue me. I wrote back that Lumber Tone Bay is a residential housing development project going up and that their ever so important TM is not being violated.

I hate these big rich companies throwing their weight at little me

 

[thetruman]

:hehe: My name is getting exposure i put BIN at 700$ offers are welcome.
Apart jokes i wouldn t make a big deal out of warebay.
Back to the original name LumberToneBay.com I think that doesn t have an issue with ebay (the name is not misleading) and at the end common sense should drive judgements of TM infringements on individual cases.

 

[Dave_Z]

at the end common sense should drive judgements of TM infringements on individual cases.

They generally do. But even common sense isn't as common as we think it is,
given varying levels of knowledge and understanding among people.

 

[tricolorro]

Online sales and auctions was the primary model for Perfumebay. Not so with Lumber Tone Bay..... just an opinion

:hi:

It's not just PerfumeBay.com.

Ebay went after her modified domain name Perfume-Bay.com

And according to URL Academy:
"EBay has for years waged legal fights against Web sites with all sorts of names that end with “bay.”

It has closed down AutoBay, RentBay and other sites.".

In case you didn't notice, there is no "e" in AutoBay or RentBay.

But that did not stop our friends at Ebay.

See here:
http://www.urlacademy.com/?p=60

Patrick

 

[thetruman]

Evidentely ebay owns the word bay. Why don t we wset up an auction biz and we call it estreet and sue anybody has the word "street" in the domain name...

 

[DNQuest.com]

Evidently, you are not understanding all the issues here, you really need to read up on TM and domains and how they relate. This is your quote:

mmmm I own warebay (.) com and parked with keyword "auction"...

It is your intent and/or usage that makes you a squatter. It is no the fact that "bay" is in the domain. This has been repeated many times, yet, people keep on coming back to "they own every bay in the world". Well, I will tell you this, if lazy unimaginative people stop using other's trademarks and riding their coattails for you own personal monetary gain, then TM holders would not be making life tough for the real domainers out there. Unfortunately, the squatters have ruined it for us.

Say what you will, but you admit to using "auction" as a keyword, this action makes what you are doing questionable. Then you brag about the interest you are getting in the domain and set up a BIN (which should be edited out, there is no selling in the legal section. but hey, squatters have no morals and do not care about legalities or ethics).

 

[thetruman]

:hehe: My name is getting exposure i put BIN at 700$ offers are welcome.
Apart jokes i wouldn t make a big deal out of warebay.

Probably I don t understand TM. But probably you can t read. I was evidently joking. And as I wrote before I already had changed the keyword.
If I was in bad faith as you are repeating I wouldn have post anything in the first place.
Think about it and please you need to read more carefully when you reply especially if accusing someone.
Thank you (with no bitterness and no anger)
Anyway I am awaiting your excuses because you can t even talk about my moral and ethics.

 

[DNQuest.com]

mmmm I own warebay (.) com and parked with keyword "auction"...

I read quite well, I see your true intentions (refer to your previous post). You may have changed the keyword, but you can't hide the fact you infringed on ebay for commercial gain. Talk is cheap, actions speak volumes.

 

[thetruman]

Your words are indeed very cheap as you throw them to the floor so easily. You God and judge of ethic and morale that understand everything but have the same sense of humor of a lizard and the sensibility of an obese elephant.
Let s put the world END to this thread this are your words thrown away " Then you brag about the interest you are getting in the domain and set up a BIN (which should be edited out, there is no selling in the legal section. but hey, squatters have no morals and do not care about legalities or ethics).
I just will answer " Keep this judgement for you; your sarchasm and accusation
has no reason to be as you misunderstand my words that were clear to everybody apart you. Giving judgements of my morale and ethichs? You dont even know me and YOU MUST STOP OFFENDING ME. Hope this time you read this post with more attention.

 

[IAmAllanShore]

Brrrrrrrrr..... Time to ch-ch-chill a bit folks - keep it CCP :tu: (Cool, Calm, Professional )

-Allan :gl:

 

[thetruman]

I tried with the post before Allan, but I don t like to be called a squatter with not moral careless of legalities and ethics. I just can take it. Instead of pulling back he is continuing on this line. I am sure you read through the thread, and I was asking for advices in good faith trying to build up constructive discussion. Then I got verbally abused.

 

[DNQuest.com]

Sorry, but you want to know the legalities, well I am pointing them out to you. What you have done is bad faith. I am showing you how it could be perceived as cybersquattting with the information you provided. I show how teh public thinks of our business and I also show how it hurts us or could hurt you if you are challenged. You changed the keyword, but you still used teh keyword to generate traffic based off a TM. Am I right or wrong?

I am blunt at times for a reason, it is to make people think (or at least I hope). If someone does not like it when I call them a cybersquatter, I would hope they learn why I do it and hopefully they learn from th circumstance. You changed your keyword which is good, but you still tried to use teh TM. I pointed that out, so hopefully in the future, you will be more careful when setting up your portals sites.

 

[thetruman]

Philip you have been very harsh to me: you have to ponder your words a bit and I will take your last post as excuses to me (also if you seem very proud and reluctant to do it in a clearer way). Let s put a stone on top of it.
Marco