Ebay

Ebay.
A special money press release about Ebay for immediate release.
Ebay is one of the largest online marketplace.
Last week we received an email from them oris it a scam from enforcement@ebay.com saying that we are not allowed to use the domain name Ebay Money Blog at http://www.ebaymoneyblog.com because we are possibly violating the trademark law.

Now before this top story begins we believe that this email enforcement@ebay.com is a scam and not an official eBay email.In fact we will contact officially Ebay through their website and also through their email iprequest@ebay.com and hopefully will publish soon their official reply.
So for the time being the owner of email enforcement@ebay.com can go and kick our ass unless we receive an official request from Ebay that it is their official email.Too bad we wasted time answering to this email enforcement@ebay.com

Also we made a search and Ebay wants to stop Google from selling ads containing the word “ebay” like :

• how to sell on ebay
• how to make money on ebay
• how to start an online store on ebay
• tips for selling on ebay
• how to make succesful ebay auctions
• ebay auctions
• ebay auction tools
• free ebay auction templates
• ebay auction online

So the main story is this :

• Can you use a registered name and trademark like Ebay in another domain with 2 conditions?

1. Use the name being a component of a domain if you live in another country as we live in Greece
2. Get their permission in written way that you are not officially affiliated with them and post it on your website

We have also registered :

• http://www.yahoomoneyblog.com
• http://www.amazonmoneyblog.com
• http://www.googlemoneyblog.com
• http://www.myspacebusinessblog.com
• http://www.ebaymoneyblog.com of course

We also post some interesting links to support our view that we do not violate trademark regulation by no means.

http://www.news.com/2100-1024-5061888.html

http://pages.ebay.com/help/tp/trademark.html

http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/everyone-ebayipuse.html

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071011001216AAwAe1B

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark

http://wweek.com/editorial/3303/8267/

http://www.chillingeffects.org/search.cgi?search=anticybersquatting

http://www.marketingsecrets.com/blog/archives/000037.html

http://www.whoisandrewwee.com/2007/11/

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/archive/index.php/t-333024.html

Stay tuned.More to come.

The money blog