This is the first clone that really make mad today, I took the screenshot below from a website called phpmagazine.org which is simply stealing phpmagazine.net logo. If you visit the website it may take you in confusion, I don’t care for the layout design, menus and the way it’s organized but please don’t steal our logo !! I send a message via their contact page, and hope to have an answer because seriously I don’t want to make a legal case, but I will!
The logo in question was created in April 2006 by Rob, and you can find the new phpmagazine.net logo announcement here
Update : the DNS point to a certain CEOTEX.com website, and with some luck the whois isn’t protected. The domain owner is a certain Maher Ahmed, from Egypt. It’s almost 1am here, and I’m really tired, hungry, and sleepy but expect a call from me tomorrow morning inchallah.
Domain name: CEOTEX.COM Registrant Contact: Racku, Inc. Maher Ahmed (maher2day@yahoo.com) 136 Algomhuria Street Mansoura, NA 35516 EG +1.20104800485 Fax:+1.20104800485
Update : I called today Maher Ahmed, who confirmed that he own the domain name and the website. He told me that the design is temporary and it’s going to be changed.
I can confirm that it’s difficult to do something legal in such cases, but there is lots of alternatives from closing the domain, hosting account and so on. Since hosting company is US based, laws are very strict, and it’s mentioned with details in TOS. But it’s always better to resolve it a l’amiable.
Update 2 : I checked today the link, the logo have been removed and replaced with another one. Issue resolved.
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February 12th, 2007 at 11:20 pm
That really sucks but hey that’s the price to pay for success!
February 13th, 2007 at 12:33 am
I don’t think you can do anything legally if it is in Egypt
But you can always try, if this will do harm to you.
To avoid this kind of problem, I try to secure domain in all .com/.net/.org so at least nobody can have the same name and thus the same logo.
I’m sure if this is a business and not a personal site, they will be responsive
February 13th, 2007 at 6:02 am
Well it’s possible even in Egypt to take legal action. But this is the last alternative anyway.
And about domains, it wasn’t available for registration and anyway they could register it with dashes or anything. Elli yesra9 yeghleb elli 7a7i !
February 13th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
Shame on them, in fact this is one of the main web problem anyone can have a similar domain with different extension and can even steal the domain !!!