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SprayWash · Approved Exterior Cleaner

Protect your name

njacobson · Veteran Member

ive been looking into this on go daddy.

SprayWash · Approved Exterior Cleaner

Here's an example of what I'm talking about. All of these direct back to my main web-sites. Some of those names are very similar to one of my low-ball hack, photo stealing, account hijacking competitors. They are now mine, lol

Oh, and let me clarify, Ray W. of Capital Roof Wash was NOT my intended target. Its a competitor who causes both of us problems.

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Fred W · Guru

Great point Ray. I had purchased several around my name a well. I also filed a Trademark.

njacobson · Veteran Member

wow Ray thats alot of domain names!

Liberty SoftWash · PWS Vender

We own 40 of them.

Art O · Approved Exterior Cleaner

Buy domains cheap and let them expire. Then they cost the competitor a bundle to buy them back from a reseller. Why waste good money renewing them year after year.

DirtyRoofcom · Approved Exterior Cleaner

Doug can you explain the trademark process? I looked into this and it seemed like you had to jump through hoops and it wasn't cheap.

Fred W · Guru

DirtyRoofcom wrote:
Doug can you explain the trademark process? I looked into this and it seemed like you had to jump through hoops and it wasn't cheap.

I certainly can't.....:}

I don't have the temperament for dealing with Government web sites. I used Trademark Plus to ease the tension and I must say I was impressed. You need to spell out your Trademark and I felt I did a good job.....until they sent me their altered version of what I wrote. They did an awesome job describing my logo (included in my Mark) and wording the whole thing.

I think the cost was like $79.00 for their fee and then the $2XX.00 government fee.

The only thing that suck is that they bombard you with emails trying to get you to sign up for their monitoring services. But even those taper off after a few weeks.

njacobson · Veteran Member

I bought my first two domains today. SafeGuardSoftWash.com and SafeGuardSoftWashing.com

DirtyRoofcom · Approved Exterior Cleaner

Baton Rouge Roof Cleaner wrote:
DirtyRoofcom wrote:
Doug can you explain the trademark process? I looked into this and it seemed like you had to jump through hoops and it wasn't cheap.
I certainly can't.....:}

I don't have the temperament for dealing with Government web sites. I used Trademark Plus to ease the tension and I must say I was impressed. You need to spell out your Trademark and I felt I did a good job.....until they sent me their altered version of what I wrote. They did an awesome job describing my logo (included in my Mark) and wording the whole thing.
I think the cost was like $79.00 for their fee and then the $2XX.00 government fee.
The only thing that suck is that they bombard you with emails trying to get you to sign up for their monitoring services. But even those taper off after a few weeks.

Yeah govt website is where i got frustrated and stopped. Thanks for the info Ill look into trademark plus!!!