10:21 by FoxTwo
The Cousin Of Ping.Sg - Ping.My?
As usual, I'm doing my usual blog-surfing thing at work. At one of my regular stops, at KongTechnology, I came across this article.
Hmm so it appears that Advertlets have registered the domain ping.my. Update: ok I must be cock-eyed, but it's not Advertlets, my mistake. It says "from the FORMER CREATOR of Advertlets."
If it ever launches, I guess I'll register there and ping this blog there too. I'm sure they wouldn't mind a few Singaporean blogs there too. After all, ping.sg has a few Malaysian blogs being pinged here anyway.
edit (13:30 hrs) - whoever that registered ping.my, I hope he knows it won't be making money. Uzyn always complained that ping.sg makes him spend money anyway hee!
I was just thinking, if I had my way, I'd make my blog on the site called http://ping.my/blog ... "ping my blog", geddit? yes yes? No? ok nevermind sigh.
Labels: advertlets, internet
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DK @ Thursday, March 27, 2008 11:50:00 AM Lame leh. Where got people say "Former creator" one?
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FoxTwo @ Thursday, March 27, 2008 11:53:00 AM
Ya lor. I think it's purposely there to mislead pple, and I fell victim to it too. I thought it was Advertlets who did it but now it's clear that it's someone else and not them.
Or maybe he thinks that by saying he created Advertlets, will give him more credibility when he launches ping.my? who knows... -
precious @ Thursday, March 27, 2008 4:47:00 PM I think what DK meant was that there's no such thing as a former creator. If you're the creator, you're the creator. You might have created it long ago, but you are still the creator.
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FoxTwo @ Thursday, March 27, 2008 6:17:00 PM
precious - can still happen mah. He created it, then it got wiped out. Then another fella come and create a new version.
Hence, he was the "former creator" lor... MUAHAHAHA!
Ok I'm kidding. Anyway my brain not with me this week... I'm RODing!! -
muzeeK @ Thursday, March 27, 2008 10:21:00 PM
i think it is an infringement of trademark... ping.sg is now almost famous in the region. Despite of the td difference and the apparent words that it is not registered by uzyn, some naive internet users may misled into thinking that uzyn has approved or is doing a ping.my specific for malaysia...
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FoxTwo @ Friday, March 28, 2008 12:47:00 AM
muzeek - well since I'm no legal expert, I will just wait and see what happens next, and see if it actually launches. I'm just curious and surprised to see the domain so quickly registered, and not by uzyn...
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Farinelli @ Friday, March 28, 2008 9:46:00 AM
Morally it is ripping ping.sg off. But unless Uzyn explicitly registered ping.sg as a trademark and has had it approved, no legally recognised infringement has occured.
And former creator is just lame. -
ella @ Friday, March 28, 2008 6:42:00 PM
I hope you don't mind but I have tagged you, I hope you join in, but don't feel obliged to.Ella xx
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muzeeK @ Friday, March 28, 2008 7:40:00 PM
Uzyn doesn't have to register ping.sg as a trademark from my understanding. As long as the future operations/concept of ping.my is similar to ping.sg and there is proof that there are users who get confused over the 2 websites, he may be able to put forward a case. And since ping.sg has been around for quite sometime, Uzyn can register it as a trademark already..
And I agree that the former creator is lame too...
