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Nikita Kobrin |
Last Activity July 2, 2009 5:15 AM 4 replies, 282 viewings |
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| Posted: January 5, 2009 5:43 PM | Post #166191 | |
Anatoly Zolotkov![]() Mother tongue: Russian Joined: August 1, 2002 Location: Canada | Click TranslatorsCafe.org and you will see. Cybersquatting (also known as domain squatting), according to the United States federal law known as the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, is registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name with bad faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else. The cybersquatter then offers to sell the domain to the person or company who owns a trademark contained within the name at an inflated price. (From Wikipedia).
(http://whois.domaintools.com/translatorscafe.org) Hall of Fame and Shame record about the registrant of this domain name Anatoly [Edited by Anatoly Zolotkov on January 5, 2009 6:37 PM] Attached file : Untitled-3.gif (35KB - 146 downloads) | |
| Posted: January 6, 2009 3:51 AM | Post #166213—in reply to #166191 | |
| Laurent J Krauland TC Master ![]() Mother tongues: German, French Joined: August 9, 2007 Location: France |
Hello, Anatoly. I hardly cannot think that the owner of more than 31 domain names [*] (... I have enough with 2!) being also the owner of a "multi-location" - Germany, United Kingdom, China - and blacklisted translation agency is more than a mere coincidence. Thanks for revealing us these facts, at least we now know that we are not only dealing with a bad payer, but also and generally speaking with a person whose bad faith goes through and through! Laurent K. PS: did you also notice that one of his domain names is "xxxxx-CON.com", in this case the name tells it all .[*] among those some curiously dealing with the translation industry and cloning the layout and/or the name of TC... [Edited by Laurent J Krauland on January 6, 2009 5:09 AM] | |
| Posted: January 6, 2009 8:12 AM | Post #166235—in reply to #166191 | |
dominique f.![]() Mother tongue: French Joined: October 31, 2004 Location: France |
Hi Anatoly I don't understand (but then I'm rather illiterate when it comes to understanding how the WWW actually works!)... how can this guy legally use the same name (albeit with an .org rather than .com suffix)? Surely you've registered it as your own? And can such people be stopped?? Happy New Year, Anatoly! And thank you for keeping up with TC where many of us feel very much at home. dominique (bumping up this thread to update exposure) | |
| Posted: January 6, 2009 8:56 AM | Post #166238—in reply to #166235 | |
Anatoly Zolotkov![]() Mother tongue: Russian Joined: August 1, 2002 Location: Canada | Hi Dominique, Thank you. It is legal. It is called "business". When I started this site, I was supposed to purchase all possible domain names like translatorscafe.ca, translatorscafe.biz, translatorscafe.ogr, etc. I preferred to do development instead. And I am not in a position to start feeding lawyers or to spend my own time on preparing the necessary documents for ICANN to take this domain name back from the sybersquatters. I made this posting because several outsourcers filed complaints explaining that they posted jobs on TC and soon started getting messages about those jobs from users of TranslatorPub.com (also TranslatorsPub.com). In their complaints they demanded to do something about it. This posting is my response to their complaints. Anatoly [Edited by Anatoly Zolotkov on June 17, 2009 2:02 PM] | |
| Posted: January 6, 2009 10:11 AM | Post #166247—in reply to #166238 | |
dominique f.![]() Mother tongue: French Joined: October 31, 2004 Location: France | thanks for your explanations Anatoly, now I understand a little better. So in addition to stealing the name, the man also steals content from this site and its users, if I understand right! Is there anything we (TC members and visitors) can do about it, aside from spreading the word about this guy and his site and just hoping that "what goes around, comes around" and that "we reap what we sow"? df [Edited by dominique f. on January 6, 2009 10:13 AM] | |
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