[Mageia-discuss] Google, yahoo, Hotmail and Flickr accounts

[atilla ontas]

Thats an important issue. Is it a legal problem?

2010/9/21 David W. Hodgins <davidwhodgins at gmail.com>:
> On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:15:05 -0400, Lawrence A Fossi <darkfoss at comst.net>
> wrote:
>
>> It's inevitable that Mageia would be claimed on some accounts.. a quick
>> Google turned up 1 US business 1 guy on Twitter
>> and a second with JA-Mageia..all on page 1 of the search
>> http://sites.google.com/site/johnwellssr/home
>
> Ouch!  Is this a show stopper for the name mageia?
> http://mageia.com/
>
> The domain was registered in 2001, with the ownership hidden
> by Domains by Proxy.  The sites.google.com, and the
> "Recent Site Activity" link on mageia.com shows it's
> being maintained by "John Wells Sr".
>
> Note that the logo consists of the site name in a stylized
> script, with the phrase "Isn't it magic", as the "future Web
> home for Mageia Minerals of Chassell, Michigan".  The site
> consists of a single page hosted on sites.google.com.  The
> recent activity indicates it was all created July 26th, 2010.
>
> While mageia.org is not the same as mageia.com, I expect
> a lot of users are going to accidentally go to the wrong
> site.
>
> Is this going to be potential legal problem?
>
> Regards, Dave Hodgins
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