How SEOMoz sent us a takedown notice.
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How SEOMoz sent us a takedown notice.
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Re: How SEOMoz sent us a takedown notice.
#2Note: definitely worth reading the comments, especially from Sarah Bird (COO at Moz), and the Inbound thread and comments - http://www.inbound.org/articles/view/how-seomoz-sent-us-a-ta...
Re: How SEOMoz sent us a takedown notice.
#3Note: definitely worth reading the comments, especially from Sarah Bird (COO at Moz), and the Inbound thread and comments - http://www.inbound.org/articles/view/how-seomoz-sent-us-a-ta...
So apparently you worked for seomoz, and maybe you currently work for moz. Why not disclose that? http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnfdoherty
Those comments don't make seomoz look any better. Look at the date when doz.com was purchased.
Re: How SEOMoz sent us a takedown notice.
#4A very important snippet from the comments from Sarah Bird (COO of Moz)
> So, I did what I would want someone to do for me. In January, I called him to give him a personal heads up that we had a problem, that the brand felt too close for us. I told him we had a registered intent-to-use, and that we were planning on launching soon, just like him. I asked him to use a different brand for his future product or that we would have to cancel his mark. He explained to me that his product is different enough from ours that there wouldn’t be confusion. I urged him to talk to his lawyer and get independent advice before he launched his product.
Re: How SEOMoz sent us a takedown notice.
#5Note: definitely worth reading the comments, especially from Sarah Bird (COO at Moz), and the Inbound thread and comments - http://www.inbound.org/articles/view/how-seomoz-sent-us-a-ta...
So apparently you worked for seomoz, and maybe you currently work for moz. Why not disclose that? http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnfdoherty Those comments don't make seomoz look any better. Look at the date when doz.com was purchased.
I'm a Global Associate for Moz and I work for Distilled, who took over Moz's consulting business when they went fulltime in SAAS.
edited because I was a jerk
Next, doesn't matter when the domain was purchased. What matters is the date that the trademark, or the intent to use a trademark, was filed.
Re: How SEOMoz sent us a takedown notice.
#6God damn lawyers with their god damn copyright crap. Eh, you get what I mean.
I'm disgusted by this behavior. What happened to innovate?
Re: How SEOMoz sent us a takedown notice.
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
So apparently you worked for seomoz, and maybe you currently work for moz. Why not disclose that? http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnfdoherty Those comments don't make seomoz look any better. Look at the date when doz.com was purchased.
I'm a Global Associate for Moz and I work for Distilled, who took over Moz's consulting business when they went fulltime in SAAS. edited because I was a jerk Next, doesn't matter when the domain was purchased. What matters is the date that the trademark, or the intent to use a trademark, was filed.
I never said that you denied it. I said that you failed to disclose it in your comment. My earlier comment was just a friendly reminder but since you went uppercase on me I'll add that you should know better because of the industry you work in.
Re: How SEOMoz sent us a takedown notice.
#8Pulling over my comments on the matter from Inbound.org. Anji mentions a partnership in his post that I wanted to put come context behind.
> When Anji reached out to us initially, they were CapSEO. At the time, I had no idea Doz existed, or that CapSEO was rebranding. As Anji and I talked, the discussion was around the functionality of CapSEO, which I saw as complementary. Later the discussion moved to their plans to rebrand to Doz, with a fuller focus on inbound marketing services (and software). This too is complementary, but not with the brand of Doz, as Sarah alluded to. There's obvious confusion and brand dilution of Moz that can come as a result, and it's our duty to protect our trademark.
I think it's important to have this context. It feel into our lap with no other option than the action we took, we didn't seek this out. We've taken every step to be transparent into why, and hope, still, that we can resolve this in a civilized manner. I've spent the past 8 years of my life doing startups, the last thing we want to do is derail a startup from their mission.
Re: How SEOMoz sent us a takedown notice.
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
So apparently you worked for seomoz, and maybe you currently work for moz. Why not disclose that? http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnfdoherty Those comments don't make seomoz look any better. Look at the date when doz.com was purchased.
I'm a Global Associate for Moz and I work for Distilled, who took over Moz's consulting business when they went fulltime in SAAS. edited because I was a jerk Next, doesn't matter when the domain was purchased. What matters is the date that the trademark, or the intent to use a trademark, was filed.
Thanks Ben. Didn't realize it was against rules to not disclose that I'm affiliated with Moz. Will correct in the future.
Re: How SEOMoz sent us a takedown notice.
#10Note: definitely worth reading the comments, especially from Sarah Bird (COO at Moz), and the Inbound thread and comments - http://www.inbound.org/articles/view/how-seomoz-sent-us-a-ta...
So apparently you worked for seomoz, and maybe you currently work for moz. Why not disclose that? http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnfdoherty Those comments don't make seomoz look any better. Look at the date when doz.com was purchased.
I'd say we're not trying to "look any better" we just want to be sure both sides of the situation are out there.