Grrrrrr. OKAY.
I will try to remain calm, after all, I am currently practicing the art of sending love and energy to everyone. And then, of course, something happens to MAKE MY BLOOD BOIL-sorry, i let the beast out again. Shhhhh. Hush, little beast.
This little "situation" is rather ridiculous, and happens to make me quite angry, but I have decided that, instead of contacting this person, I will tell the story here, and hope that perhaps it will at least be therapeutic, if not be seen by the "right" people. Here goes:
There's this girl I know. She happens to be starting an internet/home based business.
Her dream to start this business began several months back, well possibly more, but the real serious action began several months back.
So, I've been chatting about this business with her for quite some time.
One thing in particular that she asked me a lot about was the name for her business/website. She had quite a few good ideas, as she is a creative person, and she happened to run the majority of these ideas past me and other friends. She discussed the meanings behind each idea, asked me to pull a rune/tarot card or two, and really thought about her decision.
Another thing she was concerned about was having a unique name. When she finally picked (out of names SHE CREATED) a name she really liked (oops, the beast had a little temper flare-up, did you see that?), the spelling she wanted happened to be taken as a domain name. So, she decided (in her OWN BRAIN, without assistance from other websites) to choose a different spelling, and lo and behold, there were available domains for her to use.
(Breathe in thru the nose, out thru the mouth...... caaaaaaaaalm....)
Now the dot com one happened to be taken, but by someone who was doing something DIFFERENT than her.
It was not like she was selling burgers, called her site "Beeeeef.net", and then noticed someone had "Beeeeef.com" and was selling burger patties, even.
If you wanted to use this stupid analogy, it would be like hers was "Beeeeef.net" and sold pork, and "Beeeeef.com" sold breaded soy chicken fingers.
Do you see what I'm saying? If not, how about this:
(I'm going to use this analogy for the rest of the story. Any similarity to real websites is entirely unintentional.)
My point is, she came by the name honestly, using her own brain, and in the end felt comfortable using the name.
So the other day, my other friend (yeah, I've only got two, isn't that sad?) happened to type in "Cuckooooo.com" instead of .net by mistake.
On "Cuckooooo.com", we discovered a nice little disclaimer about the "originality" of this domain name and how my friend supposedly decided this name was a good name for selling feathers after viewing "Cuckooooo.com", (insinuating nicely that MY FRIEND RIPPED HER OFF after looking at her site) and then pondering why someone in the creative field wouldn't want to come up with her own ideas.
Cuckooooo has now decided to go by: "Cuckooooo: The Original". (And let's go back to grade three, 'cause that's where this fits RIGHT IN.)
I'm not quite sure what makes this person assume this. My friend didn't even know about the other site until she DISCOVERED IT BECAUSE SHE CAME UP WITH THE NAME AND TRIED TO REGISTER IT!!!!!
Kinda like when I registered my domain name, (which happens to be my name) and saw all the other people with dot com, and dot whatever else was taken, and went to look at their sites 'cause I was curious. Like that.
I guess the moral of this story is, people like to assume the worst. Cuckooooo did. Just because someone else came up with the same idea as you doesn't mean they stole it from you. We're all connected, don't you think a zillion other people have the same thoughts and ideas and dreams as you?
I guess time will tell what happens here.....I know my friend will deal with this thoughtfully, even if I haven't and hopefully she won't kick my ass for telling this story......
anger,
human nature,
websites,
domain names
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