Comments on: Domains Are Brands – Square Squareup.com Fever Feedafever.com http://www.domainnoob.com/blog/2009/12/domains-are-brands-square-squareup-com-fever-feedafever-com/ My Trip To Domainland Wed, 19 Oct 2011 05:12:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: John http://www.domainnoob.com/blog/2009/12/domains-are-brands-square-squareup-com-fever-feedafever-com/comment-page-1/#comment-254 John Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:27:37 +0000 http://www.domainnoob.com/blog/?p=454#comment-254 Thanks for stopping by Will. Yeah the Foursquare example, exactly! Thanks for pointing out the Dropbox.com story. Looking into the details now it looks like it was a messy one, and I don't see the price paid- GetDropbox.com took the owner of Dropbox.com to Federal court to put the pressure on to get the domain. Bypassed the UDRP altogether. Dropbox.com domain owner bought it nine years before GetDropbox came along but because of GoDaddy parking, he ended up being sued for Trademark infringement. Here's the TechCrunch article: http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/13/dropbox-acquires-the-domain-everyone-thought-it-had-dropbox-com/ Comments: http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/13/dropbox-acquires-the-domain-everyone-thought-it-had-dropbox-com/#comments Thanks for stopping by Will. Yeah the Foursquare example, exactly! Thanks for pointing out the Dropbox.com story. Looking into the details now it looks like it was a messy one, and I don’t see the price paid- GetDropbox.com took the owner of Dropbox.com to Federal court to put the pressure on to get the domain. Bypassed the UDRP altogether. Dropbox.com domain owner bought it nine years before GetDropbox came along but because of GoDaddy parking, he ended up being sued for Trademark infringement. Here’s the TechCrunch article:
http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/13/dropbox-acquires-the-domain-everyone-thought-it-had-dropbox-com/
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http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/13/dropbox-acquires-the-domain-everyone-thought-it-had-dropbox-com/#comments

]]> By: Will http://www.domainnoob.com/blog/2009/12/domains-are-brands-square-squareup-com-fever-feedafever-com/comment-page-1/#comment-253 Will Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:44:32 +0000 http://www.domainnoob.com/blog/?p=454#comment-253 They're going to end up buying square.com anyway I would predict, just as getdropbox finally broke down and bought dropbox.com. You make a really obvious point. Why would you wait to buy something? You prefer to buy a domain name when it's more expensive I guess... The lesson I take away is just because you raised XX in venture capital doesn't mean always have common sense. Foursquare forgetting to renew their domain name...Twitter using "admin" as their password. The list goes on and on... They’re going to end up buying square.com anyway I would predict, just as getdropbox finally broke down and bought dropbox.com.

You make a really obvious point. Why would you wait to buy something? You prefer to buy a domain name when it’s more expensive I guess…

The lesson I take away is just because you raised XX in venture capital doesn’t mean always have common sense. Foursquare forgetting to renew their domain name…Twitter using “admin” as their password. The list goes on and on…

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