discuss Meta is after my Horizon names

[uglydork]

Just an FYI - Just letting people know that Meta is trying to take my Horizon domains. They dont mention Meta or Facebook .
Meta's domain name guy (Daniel) asked for my list of names after I did some outbound. A week later their attorneys told me I have 7 days to hand over the names. I told them to pound salt.
Interesting enough, they dont care about my Meta names.

 

[Xiberia]

Unfortunately for the OP, Facebook having a product that uses a word means Facebook then owns that word. According to Facebook anyway. And a remarkable number of people here who side with the Evil Corp.

OTOH, OP should lose the names simply for actually calling them "Meta".

 

[Domainication]

I
I BELIEVE he is already a member of Name Pros...

Oh my bad. Then he is at the right place for sure. Don't wanted to blame him. But THAT was a way how domaining never will work for both sides - seller and buyer. Like you said 'his topic of outbounding to trademarked companies has been addressed several times here on Name Pros.'

 

[Domainication]

He contacted them. You don’t do that with a trademark holder.

Agreed. And it makes it even more worse that he clearly handregistered these domains only for the reason to sell it to the Trademark holder. (Registered 20-22th of October / First outbound mail at 26th of October according to the lawsuite UDPR).

 

[cabotower]

Godaddy has more "Horizon" names listed for sale than you can shake a stick at. Hmm.

 

[alcy]

what's a horizon name again? yer post sounds.like someone.after.yer meta names and then it doesnt

 

[alcy]

ok sorry not familiar

what's the link horizon to meta?

 

[alcy]

yea seems more often than not outrebounding comes.at.a price

sucks.

 

[GoKaizen]

My recommendation in these situations is to always not respond.

They can't sue you if they don't know who they are dealing with.

 

[Haticus]

My recommendation in these situations is to always not respond.

They can't sue you if they don't know who they are dealing with.

That’s true - it’s a cold email until you respond. Make them make leaps and bounds to contact you.

 

[sharfab]

I can see the issue on why they are requesting your names. You outbounded and tried to sell horizonengineer.com to a company that owns the trademark to "Horizon" and that company has engineers as part of its staffing. That is where it becomes an issue.

 

[bmugford]

My recommendation in these situations is to always not respond.

They can't sue you if they don't know who they are dealing with.

Facebook aka Meta is a company with an almost trillion dollar market cap. I think they have the resources to figure out who owns a domain, especially when they proactively contacted them.

As far as the OP's post, I have no opinion on the merits of their claims.

Brad

 

[dncafe]

ok sorry not familiar

what's the link horizon to meta?

"Horizon Worlds" is a VR world/game from Facebook

 

[jedaprin]

From my understanding when i first used the internet at a young age most of the websites were filled with lies and not organized
Now a days its an industry standard of filtering out the bad sites from the good ones

Perhaps thats their approach in order to reach a higher industry standard globally

But is it Better

 

[wallet2it]

That's why I never do outbound.

Same lol

 

[Jimmysun]

they dont care about my Meta names.

Maybe when they done acquiring all Meta trademarks they will come to slaughter all companies who are using the meta+words all in once.

 

[lovely4ever]

Just an FYI - Just letting people know that Meta is trying to take my Horizon domains. They dont mention Meta or Facebook .
Meta's domain name guy (Daniel) asked for my list of names after I did some outbound. A week later their attorneys told me I have 7 days to hand over the names. I told them to pound salt.
Interesting enough, they dont care about my Meta names.

Tell the attorney you have 7 days to buy it BIN at current price , price wil go higher after ! LOL


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[private123]

Looks like Meta got them - https://domaingang.com/domain-law/meta-platforms-wins-udrp-for-several-horizon-domain-names/

all horizon name dropping ? ( risky urdp filled ?? )

 

[ecomslice]

I think its time to drop all judgment everyone, he had more dignity then most would have given the outcome . We all do silly things sometimes. Move on to your next person to insult if it makes you feel better in life.

Sounds like a closed story. Lesson for him and many.