Comments on: Protect Your Unique Brand(s) http://simplygeo.com/2009/11/22/protect-your-unique-brands/ Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:10:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: forex robot http://simplygeo.com/2009/11/22/protect-your-unique-brands/comment-page-1/#comment-1938 forex robot Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:51:32 +0000 http://simplygeo.com/?p=740#comment-1938 nice post. thanks. nice post. thanks.

]]> By: Steve http://simplygeo.com/2009/11/22/protect-your-unique-brands/comment-page-1/#comment-1925 Steve Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:44:31 +0000 http://simplygeo.com/?p=740#comment-1925 Hi Matt, Thank you for taking the time to respond to my blog post. I have to admit, I was caught a little off guard by your response and by the domain simplegeo.com. I definitely agree that we can co-exist. The trademark issue is a big concern of ours due to past experiences we have encountered with other brands we own. We do not want to be limited as we grow, however, we will never develop any of the cloud based platforms regarding geo location that you offer. We would have no issues with your trademark application if we could be guaranteed that we would not be limited to anything in the local space, minus any cloud based API development. Please send me an email so we can set up a call to discuss this issue offline. steve (@) geodomains.com P.S. You selected a great brand for the services you deliver. Thanks again. Steve Hi Matt,

Thank you for taking the time to respond to my blog post. I have to admit, I was caught a little off guard by your response and by the domain simplegeo.com. I definitely agree that we can co-exist. The trademark issue is a big concern of ours due to past experiences we have encountered with other brands we own. We do not want to be limited as we grow, however, we will never develop any of the cloud based platforms regarding geo location that you offer.

We would have no issues with your trademark application if we could be guaranteed that we would not be limited to anything in the local space, minus any cloud based API development.

Please send me an email so we can set up a call to discuss this issue offline. steve (@) geodomains.com

P.S. You selected a great brand for the services you deliver.

Thanks again.
Steve

]]> By: Matt Galligan http://simplygeo.com/2009/11/22/protect-your-unique-brands/comment-page-1/#comment-1924 Matt Galligan Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:09:34 +0000 http://simplygeo.com/?p=740#comment-1924 Hey Steve, this is Matt (CEO) from SimpleGeo. Stumbled upon this blog post by a Google Blog Search query and gave it a good read. To be 100% honest, I didn't even know that this domain existed. I guess we got lucky when it came time to actually purchase the domain. Since we are a cloud-based platform service whose primary goal is to enable location-aware apps, I was inspired by other names in the industry. The one that stuck was a similar naming convention to Amazon's. Amazon has various services. SimpleDB, Simple Query Service, Simple Storage Solution (S3), etc. Having seen that, I did a quick whois for http://simplegeo.com and sure enough, it was available, so we snagged it (along with all of the other subsequent domains). As far as the trademark goes, obviously it's something that we'd like to see push through. I think that there is an easy way for us to co-exist since the domains (while one letter apart) serve very different purposes. (Not exactly a Lindows/Windows situation). We appreciate the work you're doing in the geo domain business, as anything that improves the geo experience, or broadens the general market knowledge, benefits all parties involved. Thanks again... Hey Steve, this is Matt (CEO) from SimpleGeo. Stumbled upon this blog post by a Google Blog Search query and gave it a good read. To be 100% honest, I didn’t even know that this domain existed. I guess we got lucky when it came time to actually purchase the domain. Since we are a cloud-based platform service whose primary goal is to enable location-aware apps, I was inspired by other names in the industry. The one that stuck was a similar naming convention to Amazon’s.

Amazon has various services. SimpleDB, Simple Query Service, Simple Storage Solution (S3), etc. Having seen that, I did a quick whois for http://simplegeo.com and sure enough, it was available, so we snagged it (along with all of the other subsequent domains).

As far as the trademark goes, obviously it’s something that we’d like to see push through. I think that there is an easy way for us to co-exist since the domains (while one letter apart) serve very different purposes. (Not exactly a Lindows/Windows situation). We appreciate the work you’re doing in the geo domain business, as anything that improves the geo experience, or broadens the general market knowledge, benefits all parties involved.

Thanks again…

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