Cisco reached out to me...

[DomainNameFactory]

when I registered ciscosecrets.com...

 

[Lats]

What for? The Cisco kid, and his sidekick Pancho, did a great TV show.

There are bound to be some behind the set stories


Lats...

 

WHY did you register "CiscoSecrets.com"???

 

[DomainNameFactory]

It was going to be a site on the "secrets" to passing the CCIE exam...

 

[Capt. Flash]

If it looks like infringement, if walks like infringement, if it smells like infringement.....

 

[RON2]

With a domain like that, they're surely anticipating you to start posting Top Secret Internal Cisco Memos.

:razz:

 

[Drewbert]

Use the name in a non-infringing way, and you shouldn't have any problems.

 

[Capt. Flash]

Originally posted by Drewbert
Use the name in a non-infringing way, and you shouldn't have any problems.

Originally posted by DomainNameFactory
It was going to be a site on the "secrets" to passing the CCIE exam...

OK

I guess you could sell fish. Otherwise, I would suggest you find a good attorney, CISCO will come after you. I had registered and resold "SAPWorldwide.com" and "SAPExperts.com" a few years ago, this caused me more problems than you could imagine, not only from SAP but also the guy I sold them to. If it is not generic in nature, stay away from it.

 

[DomainNameFactory]

Yea...no kidding...they did. I mentioned that in the thread start

 

[jeffpugh]

CiscoSecrets should not be a problem. Who would ever think Cisco had this site?

SAPWorldwide would create some confusion in my mind however.

 

[options]

Tell the guy to resell it to one of these:

http://www.cisco.cc.tx.us
http://www.cisco.org
http://www.ciscomusic.com
http://www.cisco-eagle.com/

The best one:
http://www.ciscotx.com/

Of course, change the content.

 

[URLtrader]

I had booked SAPwizard.com and SAPmaster.com because I was in touch with SAP to do a course with them. And they took me to court and I had a tough time though my intention was to study SAP and become a SAPmaster/SAPwizard . Names were for my own future use. My suggestion is simple - Do NOT violate a TM .

 

[mole]

Originally posted by URLtrader
My suggestion is simple - Do NOT violate a TM .

How are you going to avoid that, given that practically all the major generics have tms on them eg sex, let alone made up names or just simple initials.

Check out http://www.wipo.org.uk