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Sure. Is there a way to reach PG? I can email and check with him. Also, I picked this name as we decided to put up HN India in a HN meetup and also because HN
by prateekdayal 16y ago
Sure. Is there a way to reach PG? I can email and check with him.
Also, I picked this name as we decided to put up HN India in a HN meetup and also because HN conveys our objective well. We are not running this for profit.
- prateekdayal 16y agoI found his email address in this thread http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1716244 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1716244 I have written to him and will wait for his reply. Thanks for all the feedback.
- gsk 16y agoYou should do things in this order: Change the site name. Wait for PG's response.
- ericd 16y agoIn a lot of cases, the problem with using someone else's trademark isn't that you're profiting off of it (though that's not great either) - it's the resulting brand dilution/confusion that results. If I didn't know better, I would assume that Hacker News India was affiliated with the original, which is a problem. HN would then be affected by any actions of HNI going forward, and no trademark holder wants to be put in that situation. I would strongly suggest finding a new name.