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Hello:
In November 2004 I registered MyBlogIt.com. My vision & hope was to develop a portal that generated communal buzz. Unfortunately, personal & business challenges arose that blocked my pursuit of said goal. I thought BlogIt.com was a small hole in the wall firm. When I registered MyBlogIt.com I was in no way trying to capitalize on their crappy unknown site.
In July 2005 BlogIt.com established a trademark.
Today, BlogIt.com in a 1 sentence emailed statement says, "We registered Blogit.com a year and a half before you did, and believe that the use of any variation on blogit.com would be an attempt to benefit from the success of blogit.com."
Now couldn't MyBlog.com make a similar statement? (BTW The domain MyBlog.com sold for $400,000 in December 2005.)
MyBlogIt contains 3 common global keywords.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Is there opinion legit? Given their premise, wouldn't MyBlog.com have a say too?
Thank You.
Mike
In November 2004 I registered MyBlogIt.com. My vision & hope was to develop a portal that generated communal buzz. Unfortunately, personal & business challenges arose that blocked my pursuit of said goal. I thought BlogIt.com was a small hole in the wall firm. When I registered MyBlogIt.com I was in no way trying to capitalize on their crappy unknown site.
In July 2005 BlogIt.com established a trademark.
Today, BlogIt.com in a 1 sentence emailed statement says, "We registered Blogit.com a year and a half before you did, and believe that the use of any variation on blogit.com would be an attempt to benefit from the success of blogit.com."
Now couldn't MyBlog.com make a similar statement? (BTW The domain MyBlog.com sold for $400,000 in December 2005.)
MyBlogIt contains 3 common global keywords.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Is there opinion legit? Given their premise, wouldn't MyBlog.com have a say too?
Thank You.
Mike