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how on earth did they not register crunchpad.com ?!
by japherwocky 17y ago
how on earth did they not register crunchpad.com ?!
- vaksel 17y agohappens all the time, Apple didn't register iphone, Dell didn't register Adamo. But for this, basically the name came up in the comments, in the first post(on 07/21/2008). When it was just an idea. They didn't start calling it a CrunchPad until the 2nd prototype, 6 months later.
- NathanKP 17y agoI'm sure that will be a nice, convenient source of income for your some day, assuming that the Crunchpad doesn't completely fold, which I doubt it will.
- sireat 17y agoOTH, if the Crunchpad TM is still owned by TC or FG(or both), that domain will revert to them pretty soon.. (Think Dropbox and countless other cases). Not saying which way is right, but that is the reality.
- vaksel 17y agoa) they registered CRUNCHPAD, not CrunchPad b) they registered it on the 17th, when I already had the domain for more than a year. c) the product is already dead But yeah I know they can probably still nab it, if they try, but I figure if they do, I can still win from riding their bad publicity wave. It'll have everything: a clumsy company forgetting to register a domain for their product + company name(lollerskates) and that same company using big mean lawyers to steal the domain away from their fans(boo lawyers, boo big business). And who knows, maybe the reason I registered the domain was to sell my own line of CrunchPad Yoga Mats.
- NathanKP 17y agoa) That probably won't make any difference. b) Now that's better. c) Let's hope not. Either way you'll benefit. Publicity is sure to be yours especially if you play it up like TechCrunch is playing it up right now.