Are you looking for an established job website, with over 2,600 applicants and over 2,000 resumes?
Do you want to be able to control your future?
Do you have what it takes to run a Job board?
Do you have $25,000 to make a bid?

If you answered yes to at least two of this questions, then read on, this might be your opportunity. I am offering for sale 90% equity and ownership of OverseasContract(dot)com; established in 2007. I will retain  only 10% stake in the domain and webiste. The new owner may run the website as he likes. I will be a silent partner and will only be entitiled to 10% of future profits for life even in the event of a sale by the new owner, I will be entitled to 10% of the sale price.

OverseasContract.com catters to a particular niche; overseas contract jobs (OverseasContractjobs(dot)com domain is also included in this deal) This is usually 6 figure jobs and as such could be a very good source of income for the right individual. I am yet to implement any revenue strategy. We currently have amongst our few registered employers is PAE/Lockhead Martin and Modesta of Spain.

The job board has the ability to charge for membership and to charge for job listings if desired.

Site has never been advertised. Has spread from word of mouth and candidate referrals. I recently added an interesting feature which is the ablility of employers to filter the applicants by their security clearance status. This is a real neat and a highly regarded feature by USA military/federal overseas contract employers.

The reason for this sale offer is because I need to concentrate on one project and I have chosen to concentrate on the current development I have going on at PetMemorial(dot)com.

If you are interested, please make me an offer at offers@skydomains.com
All offers and equiries must have your full name, phone#, contact address, and url if applicable.
Minimum offer amount is $25K  for 90% ownership and equity.

Read ahead for features of the Job site software:

Current Feature List

Main Features

Main Page

Search jobs, browse jobs by date, by category or by employer. Latest jobs listed on the front page. 

Job Seeker’s Area

Jobs seekers can sign-up and submit their resume or manage their Job Alerts. Job seekers can manage other things associated with their account. 

Employer’s Area

Employers can sign-up and browse job seeker’s resumes, manage their advertisements (job postings) or manage their Resume Alerts. Job postings can be ‘Standard’ or ‘Premium’. Additionally, job seekers can submit their profile and manage other things associated with their account. 

Administration Panel

The job board is highly configurable and there are many possibilities for running the job board. The administration panel consists of a set of web pages where you can: 

• Approve / Disapprove / Edit / Delete job postings
• Approve / Disapprove / Edit accounts with the click of a button.
• View / Edit / Delete resumes.
• View sales reports and manage transactions, see who is currently online
• Set Prices
• Configure Categories, Forms, Language, Email Templates, General options, Columns on lists
• Create / Send Newsletters

Cool! – Dynamic Forms

All forms, including the Job posting form, the Resume form, Employer’s profile form, and registration forms are modified visually from the Admin without modifying any source code. 

The forms support a large number of field types including radio buttons, multiple selects, images, word documents, YouTube video, Flixn Video and more. Unlimited number of fields can be placed into a form and there’s no extra programming needed. The database is then configured automatically after the ‘Save Changes’ button is clicked. 

Cool! – Dynamic Search Forms

Search fields can be added / removed to any of the search forms. No programming is needed, the search form is updated automatically after the ‘Save Changes’ button is clicked. 

Cool! – Dynamic Lists

You can specify which columns are to be displayed on the list. Define columns which can be visible to the public, or only to the Admin. Various other options are available, including ‘sort by column name’. No programming is needed and you will see the result immediately! 

Cool! – Themes & templates

A powerful template system allows designers to build custom skins for their Job Board. Additionally, ready-made themes can be downloaded and installed separately. 

Cool! – Plug-in System

A powerful plugin system allows PHP developers and integrators to develop their own custom extensions / components to provide extra functionality. Additionally, ready-made plug-ins can be downloaded and installed separately. 

Anonymous and Blocked Fields on the resume form

Fields can also be ‘blocked’ or set to be ‘anonymous’. 

Anonymous fields encourage the job seekers to submit their resume while keeping their identity secret to the public. 

Blocked fields are used in the Subscription system to entice the employer to subscribe to the resume database. 

• Anonymous fields will not be displayed to employers unless the candidate agrees to reveal them to the employer (eg. contact details).
• Blocked fields will only be displayed to the employer if the employer subscribes to the resume database.

Both features can be toggled On/Off from the Admin. 

XML Importing System

The XML Importing system is an extra feature that is bundled with the Job Board. You can train the job board to import jobs from any XML file spec, and jobs can be delivered to your job board via HTTP or fetched from another place using the file system, FTP download or URL download. 

XML Exporting System

The XML Exporting system is an extra feature that is bundled with the Job Board. It includes the ability to build custom XML feeds, so that the data can be exported to other job boards and Search Engines. Includes out-of-the-box support for Google Base, Indeed.com, SimplyHired.com and RSS. 

Members Only Fields

Fields on job posts, employer’s profiles or resumes can be hidden to users that are not logged in. You can also make it so that the user needs to be logged in and also be a paid-up customer before they can view the ‘Members Only’ fields. 

Pre-Filled Fields on the job posting form

This is a great time-saving feature for the advertiser. Fields on the job posting form can be marked as ‘pre-filled’. When an advertiser posts a job for the next time, the data from the previous job post will be automatically pre-filled. 

Multi-lingual

The Job Board can be easily translated to many different languages. Users can switch between languages on-the-fly. 

E-Commerce Enabled – Billing System

The Job Board includes full support for collecting posting fees and subscription fees via PayPal and other payment methods. Additionally, subscription processing can managed by a custom PayPal Instant Payment Notification (IPN) module integrated with the Job Board software. 

• Advertisers can buy credits for posting. You specify the price and the amount of posting credits. Posting credits are bought in Packages (eg. $50 for 1 posting credit, $200 for 5 credits; any combination is configurable)
• Advertisers are given the choice of buying Standard Posts or Premium Posts
• Subscription are purchased for a period of time. (For example 1 month, 6 months or 12 months, any combination is configurable)
• The Job Board can also run in a “free” mode, and Standard Posts are free to all. It is possible to limit the number of free posts per user.
• Other payment systems include: 2Checkout, Authourize.net, MoneyBookers, CCAvenue, NOCHEX
• Other non-instant payment methods supported, such as Bank Transfer and Check / Money Order.

New! – A Membership billing system for candidate and employers. This is a major addition to the job board which allows you to charge a signup fee to either candidates or employers or both. 

Cool! – The job board can manage subscriptions for each customer, and if the customer used PayPal then PayPal will automatically re-bill the customer and notify the job board of the change, all is automated. 

RSS Feeds

Distribute the latest jobs to other websites through a built-in RSS feed. For example, users can add the latest job headlines to their My Yahoo Page. 

Email Alerts

Its is possible to enable / do the following: 

• Send automated Job Alerts to job seekers
• Send automated C.V. Alerts to employers
• Send Newsletters to employers / job seekers.
• Email Alert to admin when a new post is posted
• Email Alert to admin when a new user signs up
• Alert to Admin when an application is sent

The job board uses an advanced email queuing approach which can spread the sending of email over a period of time. This ensures that large websites can send the email without bogging down the server. 

Additionally, sever spam controls were included – for example the Job Board will only allow you to send bulk email to people who have explicitly opted-in, and it will not send email alerts to people who did not log on for more than 30 days (by default). 

Map

If your job board is targeting a specific area, you can enable the map feature. The map will be displayed with each post. Advertisers can mark the location by moving the marker on the map. 

Online Applications

Candidates can apply to the job postings online. You can control whenever the candidate needs to login in order to apply, or who the application goes to (Employer or Administrator or both). Candidates can attach up to 3 attachments at a time, and the application will be sent by email. 

Tell A Friend & Save This Job

Job Seekers can use this feature to send an email to their friend about a job posting that they found. Users can also save their job listings to their private area. 

Custom Time Zone

The job board’s date can be set to a custom time zone, regardless of the server’s time zone. 

Categories

Categories can be defined for job listings. The categories can be navigated by links, or using the ‘Category’ field on the Search form. Additionally, it is also possible to specify categories for Resumes and other forms as well. 

Customizable look and feel

The job board comes with a main.css file where all the styles are defined. You can control many of the look and feel aspects by simply changing the main.css file. Additionally header.php and footer.php files can be changed so that the job board fits in with the layout of your site. If you know a little php, you can modify the index.php page or other pages for even further customization. 

WYSIWYG Editor

A fully featured WYSIWYG editor is included and can be used by advertisers to format their job postings how they want, the way they want. The editor can be added as a field to any of the forms, and is highly flexible. It includes a feature for pasting in documents form Word, where it will fix all broken HTML which Word can produce. (Additionally, the job board ensures to strip any unwanted or dangerous HTML…) 

Input Filtering

You can create a list of ‘censored words’ not accepted by the job board. The job board also makes sure to filter all HTML and strip dangerous attributes from un-trusted input. Additionally, the job board breaks long words and includes some other nifty data cleaning options. 

Export to CSV file

Job Posts, Resumes, Employers, Seekers and Profiles can be exported to a CSV file and imported to your favorite spreadsheet for further analysis. 

Extra Stuff

The software contains some additional tools to make life easier. 

• It includes a Mail Monitor which is able to monitor your email box for bounced email and unsubscribe users form your mailing list automatically.
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO) features, including XML Sitemaps and search engine friendly URLs (Requires Apache HTTP Server with Mod Rewrite installed). Ability to customize title, description, keyword and file-name for all categories.

Going from a free site to an adsense site may not be much of a challenge but going from a free/donations/ adsense site to a product based site is not so easy. As some of you know, my designers and programmers have been working on PetMemorial(dot)com for some time now. Design wise they are 90% done but when it comes to  functionality, we may still have some extensive tweaking to do. Well I took the time this weekend to give the site a face lift. We have often referred to the old site as the functional place holder of the real deal. I think I will call this one the interim place holder of the final site.

What you see now is nothing like what the actual site will look like. This is just me playing around but with a purpose. One of the main purpose of this interim look is to gradually introduce some of our product line to our audience and graduallygauge peoples enthusiasm to different types of  colors, products, and product lines.

One other advantage of the interim site is that it gives me the opportunity to gradually begin to build my product descriptions and gradually get them into the search engine while I wait for the final site. Also because I have something really functional now, I am at liberty to allow some lax time for my coders and designers in hope that this will in turn mean a better site in the end.

My wife thinks the interim site is very catchy but we both agree that the final look which we have both seen a draft of is more professional. For starters most designers agree that text on colored background is not really the best you can come up with for a site. However right now, we are simply trying to juice things up a little. Who knows people might even prefer the dark look.

If you are currently working on a site, how can I help you speed things up?  need advice or something? What do you think about the interim look? If you are a pet lover, what would you like to see implemented in the new site? if you have ever lost a pet, would you consider dropping a few lines in PetMemorial(dot)com, you never know who your simple words might help out of an emotional jam.

The title of this post was lifted from Proverbs 22:1 NIV  “A good name is more desirable than great riches….” How true this is with our present economy. We are currently in a recession and every economist knows that to right this economy, the Government will try to infuse some funds into the system which will lead to a period of inflation. If everything goes well, they will be able to balance the economy with time otherwise your guess is as good as mine.

Though King Solomon was talking about about someones character and legacy when he penned the good name  phrase but how true it is for us domainers when we substitute ” domain name” for “name”.

A good domain name will survive the recession and inflation and come out ahead eventually. You could have lost all your money in stocks recently (I am not knocking stocks- I own some)  but if you have one good domain name, its value will only get better with age. Domains they say is like fine wine, the older they get the better they become.

If you are smart, you will be going into stealth mode which is what I consider as thinning out your domain to the best ones. You need to do this quick so that circumstances do not force you to loose your great names prematurely. Any fruit tree that does not bear fruit should be cut down ipso facto any domain that is not pulling its weight needs to be re-evaluated. You need to go through your portfolio and try and remember why each name was registered. If  it is not bearing fruit, has its time passed or  is  its times yet in the future. This will help you decide which to keep and those to cut loose. This is not the time to be wasteful, it is just 8 dollars I know but 8 multiplied by 100 suddenly becomes $800– Oh the power of zero!  Time to let go of those midnight half baked registrations.

I started this post with a saying from King Solomon the wisest man ever. Now lets forget domains for a moment and think about what Solomon really ment.
In your quest for wealth, have you forgotten who you are? have you forgotten who’s son or daughter you are? If you died today will people welcome your kids because they have known you as such a great person or would they wish them bad because you were such a back stabber or terrible individual. What legacy are you leaving behind? Are you stepping on everyone below you as you climb the corporate ladder or whatever ladder you are currently climbing?

Are people genuinely happier because they  know you?

Stop and think.

How far would you go to sell a domain? How far have you ever gone to sell one? How much would you spend to sell a domain? These are all the questions that came to mind as I opened my mail box yesterday and saw these two postcards amongst other mail from Google and Yahoo telling me to come and advertise with them. These two postcards were not from Yahoo or Google. As a matter of fact, I have never had any previous dealings with its sender/s to the best of my knowledge.

I will not string you along any longer, here are the pictures of the postcards. After you have gone through them, consider the fact that one of them has 28 cents postage on it. If the sender sent out 100,000 pieces of mail, that will bring the cost of this mailing to $28,000 USD. What if they just sent a misery 5,000 pieces? the cost will be $1400.

I am not knocking this mailing by any means. In-fact I give the people or person responsible an “A” for effort. I encourage anything that brings domaining to mainstream but my problem is that neither my wife nor any of my friends got this postcard. Just wondering if the domaining community was these peoples target, wouldn’t a simple ad on Domaining.com or DnForum  or even a featured listing on Sedo been cheaper? Please share your thoughts.

Just thought you guys will get a kick out of this. It is possible a lot of you may have already received similar offers in the past but I have come to realize that no two domainers replies to offers quite the same way.  These days I have taken to ignoring obvious low ball offers from Sedo. A lot of people will frown at this practice and I am not advocating it to be the best method but I am thinking if you see a category killer domain with more than 10 past offers, it is unlikely, 500 bucks is the asking price.  When offers come to me directly via email, sometimes, I will wait till I get to my home office to reply to such offers after due research and other times, I will reply immediately from my Droid. Here is one of  those scenarios. Enjoy and have a great weekend

Dear Sir/Madam

Is is possible to get this domain name from you? I am willing to pay some money for it, as I really would like to get a good grade for this assigment

Just thought you guys will get a kick out of this. It is possible a lot of you may have already received similar offers in the past but I have come to realize that no two domainers replies to offers quite the same way.  These days I have taken to ignoring obvious low ball offers from Sedo. A lot of people will frown at this practice and I am not advocating it to be the best method but I am thinking if you see a category killer domain with more than 10 past offers, it is unlikely, 500 bucks is the asking price.  When offers come to me directly via email, sometimes, I will wait till I get to my home office to reply to such offers after due research and other times, I will reply immediately from my Droid. Here is one of  those scenarios. Enjoy and have a great weekend

Dear Sir/Madam

Is is possible to get this domain name from you? I am willing to pay some money for it, as I really would like to get a good grade for this assigment

This is definitely not the title I had envisioned nor the post that I had planned for this point in time but this is the post I have for you today. I am hoping that in sharing this openly that it might somehow inspire someone in the same condition and let them know that they are not alone. Failure on its own is not bad since what becomes of you after is more important than the failure itself.

This post is a story of my passion and drive for a particular domain and how I have struggled and failed repeatedly to bring it to its full potential. Where do I start, I will try a quick summary of events leading to my latest failure. I purchased Petmemorial(dot)com a couple of years ago in the secondary market. At the time of purchase, all I had was passion and love for animals.

Hanna

My decision to buy the domain name then was as a result of some live events and a special dog called Hanna. Prior to purchasing the domain, I owned PetHall and it used to be a portal for pet lovers. In its prime PetHall offered free email, greeting cards and a lot of things which by today’s standards is not a big deal but was a big deal sometime around  2000 and 2003. When Hanna a German Shepard mix which belonged to my then girlfriends mother passed away, she was so devastated and frankly it could be said that words can not clearly describe how my girlfriends mother felt. However I did notice the soothing feeling Hanna’s memorial in PetHall gave her. At that very moment my ambition to provide a place where grieving pet owners can feel better and mingle with  other pet lovers who may be able to provide comfort was born. I purchased pet memorial a couple of months later and almost starved doing it. I was a lowly Airman with the US Air Force at the time.

From day one, I have never lacked ambition or ideas for pet memorial (PM) but I have never been able to bring my ideas for this wonderful domain to fruition. In the early days, it forwarded to pethall/petmemorial and then as my interest in pethall wained, my interest in PM grew.
I moved it to its own hosting and that was when the journey began. PM has been a Frontpage site, a Subdreamer site, it has been vbadvanced/vbulletin adapted site, It has been a Geek Articles and Review adapted site and even a WordPress site  and while it went through all these changes, my vision for the site remained strong, despite the fact that I was not getting it to be all it could be.

In 2006 when I was in the desert supporting the armed forces, I had 10 hours of spare time and a slow but available computer. I quickly set out for a coder and hired the best one I could find at vWorker then known as Rent-a-Coder. When this guy was done, What I got was a skeleton of what I had envisioned. I learned a hard lesson then which is to make sure everything in future is spelled out in writing. Do not assume anything when contracting a job. Some of these coders can be funny in there ways.  Needless to say, that development went no where, my money was gone and I still could not use the site he built. I however salvaged two functionality from his work which we call post-a-paw and light-a-candle. I patched these two functionality to the site as I went back to using and adapted vbulletin engine.

This year I wanted to make sure I focused on one domain or site.
From the middle of this year, I had one goal. It was simple. To finally bring PM to its full glory. I got two sample sites to explain the workings of a memorial site, I then proceeded to pen down every detail of how my PM would work. I posted the job again at a freelance site. I had over 30 bids. I then proceeded to ask each one of them questions to see if they even understood what they claim they can do. Most never replied satisfactorily. There was however one  particular coder/company who was rated #22 out of over 300,000 of his peers who impressed me.  He wrote flawless English, and when I fired him with a 10 point questionnaire, he proceeded to answer each and everyone of my questions. He was by far NOT the cheapest, he was not exactly the most expensive but he was up there; top 5 in pricing. He was however the most highly rated in expertise amongst those that bid on the job.

I am going to cut a long story short here. My coder was never able to complete the job despite 3 extensions. What bothered me the most was that the main functionality that mattered to me was never really done even though he had completed 70 percent of the site. Another issue was the fact that his so called completed work was littered with avoidable errors and bugs. I got tied of spending almost 5 hours daily combing through his work to point out errors and omissions. When I finally pulled the plug on the project, it was not as much the fact that he never finished the job but more along the lines that I did not think he could ever finish the job. He had hit his limit. He is a great coder but with very little imagination. The back-end of his work was an apology to say the least. Luckily for me this time, I had a very descriptive contract  with clear spelled out expectations so I was able to work out with my funds.

I am gradually bringing back PM to a  WordPress site as of the time of this writing. In domaining as in live, you will hit many roadblocks but somehow the difference between winners and losers is often determined by whether you get up and keep fighting or you trow in the towel. I have decided I will fight to the end even though at times like this it becomes difficult to keep a positive attitude yet it is at times like this that one needs a positive attitude the most.

Forgive me domainers for this  should have been a grand tale of the successful launch of the best pet memorial site the world have ever seen, a place where grieving pet owners can find some comfort and solace. Yes I have failed yet again but by Gods grace, I will succeed some day. If this becomes my last post before Christmas; Merry Christmas everyone and may the New Year bring forth great insights and blessings from the most high.

Happy new year everyone.  I will continue my policy of blogging only when I absolutely have something to say and this is one of those times. I saw this article in Yahoo and I wish more people especially people in business read this article or at least the part of it that I am going to devote this short post to. Believe me this is worth every second of the 3 minutes of your life you are about to share with me.

The article is on Six companies companies that did not survive 2010 and one of the companies there really caught my attention as a domainer. Since I am a domainer and do not want to be accused of embelishing the article, I am going to do a long quote instead of putting this juicy story in my own words.

Eliene Zimmerman of The New York Time writes about Wesabe a personal finance Web site based in San Fransicico;

” Wesabe opened in 2006 and closed in July.

AT ITS PEAK Wesabe was one of the first movers in the Web 2.0 financial space. Its founders, Mr. Hedlund and Jason Knight, envisioned a site that would help consumers budget their money and make better spending decisions. The company received two rounds of venture capital financing totaling $4.7 million and signed up 150,000 members in its first year.

WHAT WENT WRONG Ten months after Wesabe’s introduction, a competitor, Mint.com, appeared. As Mr. Hedlund acknowledges, Mint had a better name and better design and was easier to use. Within nine months, Mint had 300,000 users and $17 million in venture financing. In 2009, Mint was sold to Intuit for $170 million.”

All I can say is what a terrible name Wesabe is. This guy did not have to own Mint.com when he started but he could have at least opted for a better name than Wesabe.

Reference: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Six-Companies-That-Did-Not-nytimes-3376907748.html?x=0

So BooCoo.com is spending $6 million monthly on advertising, my question is where is my share? If  the name is new to you then a few lines of  intro will be in order. Boo coo means a large number or huge amount. Boo coo is originally  from the French beau coup. It was brought to the United States by retuning Vietnam war veterans who heard it from the heavily French influenced Vietnamese. (urbandictionary.com) Boocoo is an online auction site much like ebay.  While not particularly a fan of ebay, hence I have hoped for a strong competitor in this field. I was so excited when a couple of weeks ago, in between study breaks, I picked up my local newspaper and saw a full page ad by boocoo auctions.  Part of the news paper ad read

             Boocoo may be the new online auction in town, but we have
             Partnership with over 300 media outlets across the country.
            That ‘s an audience of 22 million with $6 million of newspaper,
            TV and online advertising support monthly. With no fees 
           until you sell, you can try it risk-free. See how we put the awe .
          back in auctions

Boocoo has a long way to go if ebay is its target. For starters, the site looks, well cheap. Don’t get me wrong there is nothing wrong with the site but with a monthly budget of 6 million USD in advertising, I think I would have come up with something that would have dazzled the world. Perhaps to dazzle the world is not the goal, sometimes there is magic in simplicity.  But in boocoo’s case, is it so over symplified that it might end up being ignored? I however think that the no fees until you sell is a brilliant idea and if they succeed, might pose a big problem for ebay. What is missing is there own PayPal or shall we say BooPall.

What would you do differently if you were boocoo? I personally would have tried to find a way to get lots  of cheap products for starters, maybe concentrate on one niche for a period and hopefully it spreads that way. Taking on a giant like ebay is not easy even with $6 million monthly ad budget. Maybe some of those dollars would have been better spent on affiliates. Remember, Paypal became immensely popular by bribing us with $5 bucks per referral in he early days.  I have already registered for a user account, you never know what I might want to sell some day. Like ebay I like to say I was one of the early adopters.

By the way if you did not know the meaning of the name prior to reading this article, would you have considered it a good name? Do you still think it is a good name even now?

I think it is somewhat confusing to spell, at least in the beginning. I hear someone saying, much like Google.

“A good name is more desirable than great riches….”
Proverbs 22:1 NIV

Here is a partial  list of  our  domains. Feel Free to make me an offer.

1. ePocketKnife.com
2. iCharleston.com
3. Copperville.com
4. CollegeLifeCoaching.com
5. CustomLifePlan.com
6. OledPrinter.com
7. DayTradingAccount.com
8. FabTies.com
9. JuniorPlus.com
10. IndustrialPlanters.com (minisite)
11. FitnessHall.com
12. FleaMarketFinds.com (Website)
13. ForSaleByBreeder.com
14. FreeCreditResearch.com
15. HeadSetVideo.com
16. HeadsetDisplay.com
17. HearingDogs.com (minisite)
18. HydrogenInjector.com
19. IdentityMonitor.info
20. LasikCenter.co.uk
21. ManureBiodiesel.com  —-HOT
22. NewsVideo.co.uk
23. OledPod.com
24. OnlineIDprotection.com
25. PetClassified.net
26. PetMessageBoard.com (active website)
27. uAnalyze.com  (nice blog or news name)
28. WirelessPowerStation.com

The Friday edition of  The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Bob Parson, the founder and CEO of GoDaddy.com has just paid a whooping $8.72 million for a Balinese -style house on Hawaii’s Big Island that was built by Singer-actress, Cher. The property went to auction last month. “Located at the Four Seasons’ Hualalai resort, the property includes a main house and four one-bedroom bungalows. Cher bought the property in December 2004 for $2.9 million and last year began building the house but never lived in it” WSJ (2010).

Talking about Cher, is she still on her never ending final tour? It appears so.

Who owns Cher.com ? The site looks like it should belong to her and is devoted to her but who-is points to :

Registrant:
   Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
   11355 W. Olympic Blvd
   Los Angeles, CA  90064
   US

This is probably her production company that registered the name for her. Awesome mini site!

OK people, I am back to studying for a test tonight. It was nice chatting with you guys again even if it was for a short trivial fact.

So the news today is that a Phoenix based company is suing Apple claiming that the iCloud name infringes on its trademark. The company name in question is iCloud Communications whose primary business is  Voice over IP. They claim that Apple’s use of the iCloud name for its services courses confusion

“The goods and services with which Apple intends to use the “iCloud” mark are identical to or closely related to the goods and services that have been offered by iCloud Communications under the iCloud Marks since its formation in 2005. However, due to the worldwide media coverage given to and generated by Apple’s announcement of its “iCloud” services and the ensuing saturation advertising campaign pursued by Apple, the media and the general public have quickly come to associate the mark “iCloud” with Apple, rather than iCloud Communications”

Source:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/230127/apple_sued_by_icloud.html