Re: Trademark Issues

Thanks for the answers, everyone. I've been thinking about changing the name to avoid the hassle of the trademark and just for the reason of having a name that makes sense. :) I wanted to rename it Mercury, which would be a little more logical, since Mercury was the Roman messenger god. The only problem is that mercury.org, mercury.net, and mercury.com are all taken (as well as .cc, .tv, and .us), as is the mercury name on SourceForge.

So I guess my best bet after all would be to just change the name and not deal with this, since I'm really not interested in paying a lawyer. I just have to figure out a way to make a memorable domain name.

Thanks again, everyone.

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Re: Re: Trademark Issues by jacques (Priest) on Aug 17, 2003 at 07:54 UTC
PIMP - as in Perl IM Program. The domain name, pimp.com or pimp.org, is likely already taken. So maybe you can go with www.pimpclient.com? Or www.pimphq.com (sorta like masonhq.com)? Or even better: pimp.perl.org	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Trademark Issues by Popcorn Dave (Abbot) on Aug 18, 2003 at 15:41 UTC
Funny you suggest that name. I wrote an image mapper in Perl for a class I took and was going to call it PIMP - Perl Image Mapping Program, but I ended up calling it IMP as I thought the name might somehow affect sensibilities and my grade ;) There is no emoticon for what I'm feeling now.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Trademark Issues by MidLifeXis (Monsignor) on Aug 18, 2003 at 16:41 UTC
Careful with that one as well. NullSoft has a distribution software they call SuperPiMP in the NSIS package.	[reply]
Re: Re: Trademark Issues by shenme (Priest) on Aug 25, 2003 at 01:09 UTC
quicksilver.cc and quicksilver.to are available, and all variations of quicksilver-im or im-quicksilver seem to be available ... variations on im-fast seem to be available ... have fun!	[reply]