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The month SwapNames.com died

Posted on October 9th, 2007 by admin in Domain News | 1 Comment »

This month, SwapNames.com has ceased to exist. Due to a lawsuit from SnapNames.com – the big backordering service, SwapNames.com has had to forfeit their domain name and agree to conduct their business under a new name.

SwapNames.com allowed members to register and advertise their names for a swap and to swap names with other members. Admittedly, their interface was quite similar to SnapNames.com.

According to the USPTO.gov website, SnapNames has the following trademark filed under #2721965:

IC 042. US 100 101. G & S: REGISTRATION OF DOMAIN NAMES FOR IDENTIFICATION OF USERS ON A GLOBAL COMPUTER NETWORK, NAMELY, REGISTRATION SERVICES FOR BACK-ORDERING OF DOMAIN USERS ALREADY REGISTERED; AND PROVIDING DATABASES FEATURING GENERAL AND LOCAL NEWS AND INFORMATION OF INTEREST IN THE FIELD OF DOMAIN NAMES AND THE INTERNET. FIRST USE: 20001207. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 20001207

IC 035. US 100 101 102. G & S: DOMAIN NAME MONITORING AND TRACKING, NAMELY, DOMAIN NAME MONITORING AND NOTIFICATION SERVICES, NAMELY, MONITORING OF A DOMAIN NAME REGISTRATION RECORD AND NOTIFYING OTHERS OF STATUS AND CHANGES TO THAT RECORD; AND DOMAIN NAME AUCTION SERVICES. FIRST USE: 20001207. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 20001207

 The owner of SwapNames.com, a NamePros member, posted this in a thread at NamePros:

My name is Koay Al Vin and I am the president of SwapNames.com. Please allow me to make a very important announcement regarding SwapNames.com and your SwapName member’s account. On the 8th of August 2007, SwapNames Inc. was slapped with a trademark infringement lawsuit for using the domain name: Swapnames.com. Even tough we are absolutely certain that the allegation is baseless; we do not have the finances to hire an attorney to defend our case in court. As far as we know, a descriptive and generic phrase such as "swap names" cannot be infringing in anyway. However, to defend the lawsuit will certainly bankrupt our company, just from the hefty legal expenses. As a very new start-up venture with no financial backing, it is a huge blow to our dreams. We will have to surrender our most valuable property which is our domain name, to avoid a default judgement by the court. SwapNames.com will cease using it’s domain name on Thursday, 4th October 2007.

Seems strange that a company that has been accused of trademark infringement on many an occassion is now going after another company for trademark infringement. I suppose it’s a "dog eat dog" world out there.

SwapNames.com is now operating under the domain name Zuho.com

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