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by jasonkester
5269 days ago
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You can either buy the .com or not worry about it. By starting your company with a .st domain, you were making an implied statement that you weren't concerned with being mistaken for the .com version of your site. You were always going to leak a substantial portion of your traffic to urlist.com because that's the first thing anybody would think to type in to their browser when they heard your name. That's the world you set up for yourself. Until this guy wrote you, you were (presumably) perfectly happy with that situation. Why then is it a concern today? That is, why is it suddenly worrying you that you don't control urlist.com, when it was never your intention to control it? |
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The thing is that at the beginning we were just three friends trying to develop a simple webapp. The domain hack (.st) was to keep our URLs short. The .com domain was parked. As you wrote, "I was happy with that situation". Well, I was not happy but I though it was not so important. Now we are a company and things are different.
My fault was to not act directly against it. The urlist.com guy did a fake landing page with our contents before, now he is linking to a webapp related to bookmarking: he know what he is doing.
I was wondering if anyone has ever experienced a problem like this one, and what he/she have done to solve it :)