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Re: mouse in a room of elephants
Posted By: David Anthony Zandueta In Response To: mouse in a room of elephants (Chuck Fox)
Date: Thursday, 27 May 2004, at 7:02 p.m.
Hey Chuck.
If you have the time, money, and sincere belief this is
something to fight for, then by all means go for it!Too bad the current domain dispute process doesn't offer
protection from abuse of the process itself.Hopefully, Chuck, it won't have to reach that point...
Grrrr.
> Hey Gang!
> My name is Chuck Fox and I'm new to this forum. I've got a situation that
> some of you may be interested or curious about and I also seek
> constructive thought regarding this matter. To that end, I've decided to
> visit a few of the more relevant forums to get this message out and seek
> comments and suggestions. Basically, throw this into the "court of
> public opinion."> First a little background on an odd and unfathomable "David vs.
> Goliath" story I find myself involved with.> On Saturday, March 1, 2003, as I was relocating all of my client and
> business websites to another hosting provider, I accidentally mis-typed my
> domain in a client email, omitting the ".com" suffix.> I usually check to make sure the links in my emails are correct by
> clicking on them, and was pleasantly surprised to find it direct to
> Google, with "thinkvision" as the search term.> My http://ThinkVision.com site was listed first, but what really
> surprised me was the other listing under mine that led to IBM's press
> release announcing their new product-line of flat-panel monitors.> These monitors went by the name of "ThinkVision."
> http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/think/thinkvision.html What I'm looking for are
> people such as one might find on this forum to visit my blog and --> A) Let me have it...
> B) Let me know what you think...
> C) Tell me where I can stick it...
> D) Give IBM some shtick!> Eventually, I plan on going "global press" with this blog and
> could use some ballast to make it more relevant.> If any of you have ever had any kind experience, similar or not, in the
> domain name game, I'd like to hear from you. If, after visiting, you've
> got an opinion of this situation, by all means let me know about it by
> commenting, or posting to the blog forum.> The home page of the blog explains this anomaly in more detail, so I'll
> leave it at that and hope to hear from you. Hopefully positive thoughts,
> though negative opinion is accepted also, cuz that's the nature of
> blogging.> The blog: http://tv.chuckfox.com/ If you work at IBM, don't tell anybody
> until I go "global."> In advance, thanks for the help. Rock On!
> Best,
> Chuck Fox> "The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn."
> -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
> tv@chuckfox.com http://tv.chuckfox.com
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