WordPress.com Forums » Tag: pess - Recent Posts http://en.forums.wordpress.com/tags/pess WordPress.com Forums » Tag: pess - Recent Posts en Fri, 24 May 2013 13:02:17 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 drmike on "wordpess.com - Note: "pess", not "press"" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/wordpesscom-note-pess-not-press#post-15971 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:29:56 +0000 drmike 15971@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ He asked for a lot more though. :)

They did settle out of court though since the tech press pressed the "Big huge corporation suing a little high schooler" side of the case.

CNN when the case started.

CNN on the settlement.

Wikipedia

]]> cornell on "wordpess.com - Note: "pess", not "press"" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/wordpesscom-note-pess-not-press#post-15942 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 10:55:00 +0000 cornell 15942@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Really? He settled for an xbox? Wow! He was going for so much more than that initially!

]]> podz on "wordpess.com - Note: "pess", not "press"" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/wordpesscom-note-pess-not-press#post-15936 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 09:37:57 +0000 podz 15936@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Someone else recently bought Worpdress too.....

All legal.

It was legal for a kid called Mike Rowe who wrote code to have a site called Mikerowesoft.com too - until the guys at Redmond determined that people would get confused and mistake a one-guy site for a mega-corp (as you would!). They had no legal basis as far as I know to get the site but an xbox did the trick. That is way OT :)

]]> purpleslog on "wordpess.com - Note: "pess", not "press"" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/wordpesscom-note-pess-not-press#post-15930 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 03:09:58 +0000 purpleslog 15930@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Ok. I just sent "feedback". I had never seen that option before.

]]> drmike on "wordpess.com - Note: "pess", not "press"" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/wordpesscom-note-pess-not-press#post-15860 Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:56:01 +0000 drmike 15860@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Insert the standard "I'm not a lawyer" bit...

Not a whole lot can be done on this. While squatting on actual trademarked names is illegal here in the States and elsewhere, typos really aren't.

Heck, perfect example. What they went through with the WordPress.com domain.

]]> cornell on "wordpess.com - Note: "pess", not "press"" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/wordpesscom-note-pess-not-press#post-15853 Wed, 28 Jun 2006 11:25:38 +0000 cornell 15853@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ It's a fairly common trick actually.

Think of a misspelling microsoft and at one point or another it's been registered as a domain, normally dissing MS and then bought out by MS or a C&D order issued against it.

]]> keyboardcombatant on "wordpess.com - Note: "pess", not "press"" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/wordpesscom-note-pess-not-press#post-15849 Wed, 28 Jun 2006 10:29:28 +0000 keyboardcombatant 15849@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ bloody clever advertising. capitalize on typos.

]]> cornell on "wordpess.com - Note: "pess", not "press"" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/wordpesscom-note-pess-not-press#post-15836 Wed, 28 Jun 2006 06:40:45 +0000 cornell 15836@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Purpleslog

Can I suggest you send this through feedback to guarantee that one of the admins sees it?

Ta.

]]> purpleslog on "wordpess.com - Note: "pess", not "press"" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/wordpesscom-note-pess-not-press#post-15829 Wed, 28 Jun 2006 03:38:22 +0000 purpleslog 15829@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ There is a domain now called wordpess.com (yes, the "r" is missing). The whois contact information is being blocked by its registry.

It seems to have a single wildcard DNS entry that points the typo to a web redirection instance that pushes the browser to an ad/link page.

For instance typing in http://purpleslog.wordpess.com, redirects you to http://www.purpleslog.wordpess.com/index/index46.php .

Go ahead and try some random name like http://wfgiuerh.wordpess.com - you get the same effect.

WordPress.com folks...can you start the process to strip the owner of wordpess.com?

Thanks!

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