Trademark protection at its mightiest
Posted on:: January 20th, 2004
Microsoft continues to press its case against a 17-year-old Canadian high school student named Mike Rowe because his web site is mikerowesoft.com and he refused their offer of $10. Ten dollars! I know it sounds cheap, but you have to remember that these are ten American dollars.
You have to sympathize with Microsoft: Tons of people are going to end up on Rowe’s site by mistake simply because they typed every letter after the “i” wrong.
By the way, I just registered www.mykrowzoft.com. (I would have taken mykrowsoft.com, but someone in Hawaii already owns it.) Bring it on!
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http://mycrowesoft.com/ is actually being used.
Nice.
I wonder why MS picked the kid to go after? I mean, he has at least some claim to the name.
I wonder how my friend Marco would fare with Marcosoft.com
Everyone needs to keep in mind that we Canadians are not that quick, and could possibly confuse “mikerowesoft” with “microsoft”. This is primarily due the fact that with 2 official languages, we never really know what anyone is trying to say…
MyCrowSoft.com is also registered and being used by a speculator.
MyKrowSoft.com is taken
MykeRoweSoft.com is available (as I type this :-))
Though not MykeRowSoft.com
[quote=http://mycrowesoft.com/]
January 19/2004 :: Wow.
Wow, this is amazing. My site this morning went down because of the massive amounts of visitors coming to my site. 250000 to be exact. My host couldn’t handle the bandwidth so he was forced to shut it it down.
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:))))
Microsoft must protect domaiinames against domain squatters. Domain squattering is poor
Mike Rowe
Is No
MikeRoweSofty
T-Shirt at:
http://www.zazzle.com/products/gallery/browse_results.asp?general%5Fcategory%5Fid=103053432258371047