The communication bwt me and yahoo were started before this thread. i took some time to get legal documentation by yahoo and when they approved the price i wrote here
Do you think $450 is good price I would ask for more if they already offered me $450 by the way if you dont want to risk take this and run and dont look back
I doubt the credibility of websouls man.. I just had a live chat to clear some doubts and they sent me an invoice of 50 $ on my paypal for no reason . Any reliable registerar ?
This is the only company i know that are registering .pk domain i regiser domain names from them without any problem (.pk doesnt have a control panel to change DNS you have to open a ticket if you want to change the DNS) .. you can contact direct to pknic.net.pk but they have really long procedures.
yeah this thing got really heated up. $450.... umm.. its ok if its a 3 or 4 month old site. Its like a $7 lottery ticket which hit the jackpot.
There are many different issues involved. If marks are international matters not were you are. The only safe domain is "no confusion" on marks e.g. in a totally unrelated industry... say a website promoting a bug spray... in this instance the likelihood of Yahoo doing anything is extremely remote. The fact that the guy contacted Yahoo - suggests there is a "likely mark confusion". Nonetheless, Yahoo may or may not do a thing... but it is 100% guaranteed that any attempt to ride the mark's market wave will be met with swift dispute action to WIPO and no matter if the guy response to dispute mediation the registrar will be forced to... or Yahoo get's to go after them. The moment the cost of this incident exceeds $1500 (in productive time or real costs which is the cost of WIPO mediation) you can be sure Yahoo will head in that direction. No matter what the only way the domain can be used is picking some absolutely unrelated industry that has no dilution damage to the mark. Incidentially, marks dilution provisions are about to change... which is a likely reason Yahoo doesn't give a major hill of beans today.
Marks dilution would only have mattered had the domain infringed on any country that had approved flickr as a trademark or, of course, yahoo had the approval pending. It is clear through the contents of yahoo's C&D letter that they had not bothered registering flickr as a trademark in Pakistan, perhaps due to that market being so tiny.