YAHOO sueing 1800 people for their domains!
 

I have a friend in Egland with a domain name "yazoomail.com" which he has had for 2 years and make regular use of - he has just received in the post a letter notifying him that if he does not HAND the domain over to YAHOO immediately, and for NO financial compensation, (not even the cost of the domain name registration,) he will be sued in court to force him to sign ownership of this domain over to YAHOO! In addition, he received a list of 1800 other people with similar domain names who are ALSO being threatened with legal action if they refuse to GIFT to YAHOO their private property! WAHT does everyone think of THAT??? BOO YAHOO I say - if this goes ahead, where will it stop? This is bully-boy extortion and surely it must be illegal? Or is nothing illegal if your chequebook is fat? here are some other domains being sued for: btyaho.com, e-yatoo.com, careyaho.com, boyyaho.com, djyahoos.com, yah-uu.com, yahpgosi.com, sbcatahoo.com

Looks like a load of tosh to me...i cant see how they can do anything as they aint the same as such!!

Ok this is scaring me. Even fuggen MICROSOFT, who have been dragged into countless Anti-trust lawsuits, had the decency to offer Mike Rowe, the previous owner of MikeRoweSoft.com, a free X-Box and a lifetime pass to all Microsoft screenings.

And here I was thinking that M$ was the largest devil on the Intar Nets XD

Piss take that is, i'd tell Yahoo to do one, let them take me to court.

Sounds like complete tosh to me, probably a scam.

That's only after a HUGE campaign backing Mike Rowe in both the on and offline media :) You can be sure they wouldn't have offered him that package if it had receieved no press.

blah there just URL names pff
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True but they still did it :p

seems like a good SLAPP lawyer is needed

probably a horrible attempt to high jack his domain. If i was him i'd wait for the "offical court papers"

Even then yahoo doesnt have much of a case against him.

Sending threatening letters is cheap...

they wouldnt win the yazoo mail as it doesnt even have the same pronunciation as yahoo. nor does it represent yahoo at all. its a hoax. also was it an email or a letter. if its an email its definately a fake. any legal department would send a lengthy document detailing their claims.

Maybe yahoo should take a leaf out of your book Michael ;)

Well, as everyone said, if its an email its nothing serious. I receive a LOT of emails and phonecalls threatening my biz but never got a reall letter from any attourny.

So, until they get those pappers, be cool ;)

OMG, i remember that forum i was on there with Kerry. OMG. Good memories.

Indeed it sounds fake.

Sounds fairly real to me.

i would contact a lawyer to make sure all is legit.

like a "pay youwhen i get payed situation"...lol

idk i dont think you can do that, you pay for the domain it should be yours, but if there is illegal content on it and using the yahoo name i bet they can do something like this...basically slander of some sort i bet!

yahoo got me to delete a url..
godaddy contacted me, and i called them..
i wasn't using the url, and hadn't planned to anymore so i just deleted it and not have to worry about it..

this tho sounds like a scam to me..

man, it sounds like yahoo is having so problems. I mean, some of those names don't even have the whole word YAHOO in it. In my opinion, that is stupid!!! :angry: