The name of the website has the suffix .com. Someone else started another website with the same name only with .org. Since I have had this name for two years shouldn't I have precedence over him. We are wrangling over the name. I want him to just change the name of his website. He will not do it. Is there a way I can force him to change the name of the website or is there a difference if one name is . com and the other is . org. Is there a way I can register or trademark my name. I own the domain name.
2006-09-18 06:20:09 · 3 answers · asked by J from T 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
Unless the website name was registered as a trademark before hand you are unlikely to get any relief for your issue. This is a common practice for which the only real defense is to register the other suffixes in advance to protect your name.
2006-09-18 06:24:30 · answer #1 · answered by Interested Dude 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can do NOTHING other than offer to buy his domain name.
Which at this point, I doubt he will sell it to you.
You might want to register .net, .biz .tv and others or you are going to have someone else registering those as well.
Maybe you should have thought about registering all domain extensions rather than complaining after the fact.
Just because you own whatever.com gives you NO rights over whatever.org, whatever.net, whatever.biz or any other whatever.* domain names. They are all separate domains no matter if the "whatever" name is the same. You ONLY own whatever.com.
2006-09-18 06:30:42 · answer #2 · answered by ○Freeman○ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you would have got all the dot.whatevers you wouldn't be in your situation now agree with first answer
2006-09-18 06:29:57 · answer #3 · answered by Rusty Nails 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋