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Says a lot when your product is cloned in a couple of days. Well, there's some truth to this statement regarding the functionality of the site, but at the same
by sounddust 17y ago
Says a lot when your product is cloned in a couple of days.
Well, there's some truth to this statement regarding the functionality of the site, but at the same time I'd say that the design is harder than you might think; the work of creating designs, slogans, site names and copy text is underappreciated; it takes time and creativity to get those things right, and absolutely no work for someone to steal them. Not to mention any PR and press work done by twitvid to promote the site which could now be misdirected.
- dschobel 17y agoStealing (or being influenced by or whatever you want to call it) the design wouldn't lead to misdirected traffic. Not owning the .com is what will do that job for them.
- dhouston 17y agoIf they can get the trademark, they can maybe win a domain dispute via ICANN: http://www.icann.org/en/dndr/udrp/policy.htm http://www.icann.org/en/dndr/udrp/policy.htm if they can prove registration in bad faith and that the owner has no legitimate interest. If the twitvid.com guys really did buy the domain and design the site after twitvid.io got started, maybe they could somehow prove that stealing their thunder was the only "legitimate interest" and that the domain was acquired in bad faith. Sadly it sounds like an uphill battle -- and even in the best case it might be a Pyrrhic victory as trademarks take the better part of a year to issue (if not more) and the UDRP procedure probably isn't speedy either. And then they'll fight it, and you'll spend all your time in court instead of building your company.