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DNF$: 129 Location: England | Need advice. Hi l bought the domain name www.virgincreditcards.com Now l know eveyone in the UK knows this is a big company, and l recived a email from them saying they have passed it on to there legal department if l dont give them the name what should l do? |
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DNF$: 4,735 Location: USA | I'm not a lawyer and I'm not familiar with the company, but if it's a credit card company called Virgin, it looks like you're going to have to give them the domain since your domain contains their mark. Ask them to cover your registration costs. |
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| Guest | Virgin are a large company with many fingers in many pies. They own: *a airline (Virgin Atlantic), *Virgin Megastores/ V-shop - Entertainment stores (they even have those in the USA, selling music, dvd's etc), *a record label (was Virgin Records, which was sold, and now they are doing it again under the label V2), *Mobile service provider *Holidays. *run a train franchise. * they even dabled in Cola, which tasted just like Coca-cola to me, but i dunno if they are still doing that or not (i think they do, its just not that big). They have started to move into financial areas now, offering a mortgage product and i guess their next move is into Credit cards. I am not aware of any Virgin credit cards yet, but its a logical step for them to make. I don't know where you would stand on this, as Virgin is a very strong brand here. Their site can be found at www.virgin.com, which is kind of a portal to all their ventures |
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DNF$: 129 Location: England | Thanks all for the advice well they are already doing credit cards l think thats the reason why they want this name, but im not moving on it at all. |
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DNF$: 986 Location: Mexico | When I see virgincreditcards.com, I think of stolen credit card numbers that are fresh - ie not yet used to purchase anything. Perhaps if you build a site listing a pile of fake stolen numbers, you can keep the domain. :^) |
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DNF$: 3,049 Location: Wisconsin | those bastards shouldn't use such a terrific domain name for their company name. i can think of far better uses for virgin.com than a multinational corporation. |
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