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12-04-2005, 05:26 PM #1Newbie
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competetor has not purchased .net (only .com)
Is purchasing your competetors url in .net legal? I have not made a personal decision on if its ethical to buy it and use it to refer to another site.
Your opinions and legal and ethical advice are most welcome. I understand you may not be a lawyer.
Thanks,
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12-04-2005, 05:44 PM #2WHT Addict
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It is not ethically correct to register any domain which uses other's company name or their domains, even if other extensions are not used like .net .org or incoming extensions. You might face the judges if your competitor's have the resources. I would suggest you to stay away from the idea and compete more etically even if the law allows you to do the potential strategy that you are planning.
Actions bring reactions with the same opposite force,Sir Newton.
Carlos
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12-04-2005, 05:48 PM #3Web Hosting Master
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Unless it is a big company you are probably going to get away with it, but that doesn't mean that it is right.
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12-04-2005, 06:35 PM #4Newbie
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I agree. It was just nice to hear that I am not overly conservative.
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12-04-2005, 10:08 PM #5Web Hosting Master
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Always ask yourself this question whenever you're going to register a domain and
someone else has its variation:
"Why am I getting this name?"
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12-04-2005, 10:21 PM #6Retired Moderator
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I would feel legal questions aside, that doing this is not ethical. It would hurt your image rather than give you more business.
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12-05-2005, 12:21 AM #7Newbie
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Very true. Thanks for the feedback.
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12-06-2005, 11:27 AM #8Web Hosting Master
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Is your competitors name trademarked? You may be walking into a legal situation if you try to secure it
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12-06-2005, 01:04 PM #9Junior Guru Wannabe
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12-06-2005, 01:38 PM #10Web Hosting Master
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Sorry , but i disagree you all ........
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12-06-2005, 03:06 PM #11WHT Addict
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Roboxooo, tell us your opinion? Thanks!
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12-06-2005, 05:15 PM #12Web Hosting Master
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It is a straight forward thing . Consider an example, u establish a shop or show room of something in a plaza or market . But there is already a fully established shop there .is this ilegal or would u call it a crime to distract customers of others ......
In actual it is not so . you are just establishing ur own bussiness ......
Same is the case for domain . you have help.com and i have help.net . Its perfectly ok ....
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12-06-2005, 05:43 PM #13Temporarily Suspended
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Illegal, no, unethical, yes.
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12-06-2005, 06:01 PM #14Web Hosting Master
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I'm not exactly sure of the legalities. I have no doubt that it would be trademark infringement if I used guywhosellsthesamekindofthing.net to exploit the reputation of my competitor guywhosellsthesamekindofthing.com for my selling the same kind of thing.
I don't know if it would be illegal to register guywhosellsthesamekindofthing.net, not use the domain, and leave it to guywhosellsthesamekindofthing.com to meet my price if he happens to also want guywhosellsthesamekindofthing.net.
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12-06-2005, 06:02 PM #15Web Hosting Master
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Editing out redundant post, since I don't find remove option.
Last edited by Disgruntled; 12-06-2005 at 06:07 PM.
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12-08-2005, 02:16 AM #16Junior Guru Wannabe
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But will you guys register Google.net if it is still available?
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12-08-2005, 02:46 AM #17Junior Guru Wannabe
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Originally Posted by roboxooo
To the topic. I think it's unethical to do so, also, it looks bad on you, and looks better for them.