[Mageia-discuss] Google, yahoo, Hotmail and Flickr accounts

Tue Sep 21 21:58:22 CEST 2010

On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:15:05 -0400, Lawrence A Fossi <darkfoss at comcast.net> wrote:
+
+> It's inevitable that Mageia would be claimed on some accounts.. a quick Google turned up 1 US business 1 guy on Twitter
+> and a second with JA-Mageia..all on page 1 of the search
+> http://sites.google.com/site/johnwellssr/home
+
+Ouch!  Is this a show stopper for the name mageia?
+http://mageia.com/
+
+The domain was registered in 2001, with the ownership hidden
+by Domains by Proxy.  The sites.google.com, and the
+"Recent Site Activity" link on mageia.com shows it's
+being maintained by "John Wells Sr".
+
+Note that the logo consists of the site name in a stylized
+script, with the phrase "Isn't it magic", as the "future Web
+home for Mageia Minerals of Chassell, Michigan".  The site
+consists of a single page hosted on sites.google.com.  The
+recent activity indicates it was all created July 26th, 2010.
+
+While mageia.org is not the same as mageia.com, I expect
+a lot of users are going to accidentally go to the wrong
+site.
+
+Is this going to be potential legal problem?
+
+Regards, Dave Hodgins
+