Hello Gordon, We registered the domains for the Malaysian government to preempt some crook doing it and bringing the Golddinar into direpute before anything got off the ground. The government doe to the best of my knowledge neither own an e-gold account, nor are they likely to want one. So I don't think that this would be an issue.
Well, and I don't think that e-gold would shoot the messenger, ie. disable our accounts. I mean that would be a real cheap shot as the site will have nothing to do with e-gold whatsoever. But thanks for the warning! ===================================== Joel, Malaysia doesn't have an e-gold account, to the best of my knowledge and hence they are not subject to any agreement with e-gold. So the user agreement wouldn't apply. ===================================== JPM, Thanks for the input. But, one can't claim the trademark on something that has nothing to do with one's business or trademark whatsoever. The Golddinar was introduced around 700AD! Egold owns the trademark on e-gold and derivatives, not on 'e-'. Claiming that adding e- to Golddinar has anything to do with e-gold is pushing it a bit too far. Indeed, a ruling could backfire in so far that a court might find that while E-gold is protected, the two generic words of Electronic Gold are not. With such a decission precedent things could get real complicated. As to your example with Ford. If someone's name happens to be Ford and he incorporates a company called Ford International Corp. and then registers fordcorponline.com then there is not much Ford Motor Cars can do about it. Even under WIPO, e-gold has to prove something like: (1) that their trademark is being misappropriated; (2) that this causes a damage to e-gold; (3) that the domain was registered in bad faith. egolddinar.com stands for Electronic Golddinar and does not contain the trademark. egolddinar.com does not compete with e-gold, nor does it conduct any business in any way whatsoever related to e-gold. there is no attempt to profit from the remote resemblance that some people may see in the name to e-gold, nor indeed is there any plan to use the domain to attract e-gold users. In fact, the site will default to an Arabic and Malay language site, with Chinese, Tamil and English being subdomains. ====================================== On a different note, we had actually asked e-gold how they felt about us registering egoldindex.com for the directory site we run. At the time we were told that that would be seen unfavourable and we went with thegoldindex.com instead - proof of acting in good faith? But in the case of e-Golddinar, both domains were available and it actually only appeared to us that they contained the phrase e-gold, after we got e-mails from e-gold about it. Of course, I did reply pretty much right away and explained what purpose the domains were registered for and what type of site we were going to build. And that was the end of that. So, I'd say that the people at e-gold are much more reasonable than you guys seem to be giving them credit for. And I do agree that they should do their utmost to protect their trademark, because if scam artists abuse the name it will hurt the reputation of e-gold and by extension the business of all of us. But, there is a difference between a scam artist who tries to profit from e-gold's trademark and a site that wants to educate the public and promote the use of the Golddinar program of the Malaysian government. Cheers, Robert. budget & privacy website hosting http://www.cyberica.net budget & privacy domain registrations + mail http://www.u2planet.com/cfdomaintrust.html --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use e-gold's Secure Randomized Keyboard (SRK) when accessing your e-gold account(s) via the web and shopping cart interfaces to help thwart keystroke loggers and common viruses.
