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Ask HN: Facebook is threatening me for owning facebookrebrand.com

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Re: Ask HN: Facebook is threatening me for owning facebookrebrand.com

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Certainly, I'm not a domain attorney. However, as someone who runs a domain name protection company, my advice is to one of two things: - Log into your domain registrar and delete the domain in your account. That will make it available for registration again, giving FB a chance to register it. - Respond to them and work with them to transfer the domain to them. This is clearly, undoubtedly a trademark domain. Any UDR…

Why would this be an infringement if no one would get confused between this site and facebook itself?

Actually, I just looked into this a bit. It seems like they just do this to anyone who owns a domain that has "facebook" in it. Don't think that they're actually that serious - probably a bot.

Re: Ask HN: Facebook is threatening me for owning facebookrebrand.com

#14

why sell it? Make a page where people vote what will be the new name of facebook. Send it to random idiots on facebook, they 'll share it everywhere. $profit

Good idea! Can you help? i'll split the $ with you. it's shleiby at gmail

Re: Ask HN: Facebook is threatening me for owning facebookrebrand.com

#16
Lots of funny suggestions here. I used to have facebooksleaze.com [1], on which I posted links and a money quote from news articles about facebook. Within about two years it was DoS'd by someone who knew how to do it without disturbing a couple of other sites hosted on the same server and who didn't exploit anything else on it. Is there a way you can set up a honeypot and sue the attacker for a billion dollars?

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20150225074006/http://facebooksl...

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