mouse in a room of elephants

[ChuckFox]

Hey Gang!

My name is Chuck Fox and I'm new to this forum. I've got a situation that some of you may be interested or curious about and I also seek constructive thought regarding this matter. To that end, I've decided to visit a few of the more relevant forums to get this message out and seek comments and suggestions. Basically, throw this into the "court of public opinion."

First a little background on an odd and unfathomable "David vs. Goliath" story I find myself involved with.

On Saturday, March 1, 2003, as I was relocating all of my client and business websites to another hosting provider, I accidentally mis-typed my domain in a client email, omitting the ".com" suffix.

I usually check to make sure the links in my emails are correct by clicking on them, and was pleasantly surprised to find it direct to Google, with "thinkvision" as the search term.

My http://ThinkVision.com site was listed first, but what really surprised me was the other listing under mine that led to IBM's press release announcing their new product-line of flat-panel monitors.

These monitors went by the name of "ThinkVision."

http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/think/thinkvision.html

What I'm looking for are people such as one might find on this forum to visit my blog and --

A) Let me have it...
B) Let me know what you think...
C) Tell me where I can stick it...
D) Give IBM some shtick!

Eventually, I plan on going "global press" with this blog and could use some ballast to make it more relevant.

If any of you have ever had any kind experience, similar or not, in the domain name game, I'd like to hear from you. If, after visiting, you've got an opinion of this situation, by all means let me know about it by commenting, or posting to the blog forum.

The home page of the blog explains this anomaly in more detail, so I'll leave it at that and hope to hear from you. Hopefully positive thoughts, though negative opinion is accepted also, cuz that's the nature of blogging.

The blog: http://tv.chuckfox.com/

If you work at IBM, don't tell anybody until I go "global."

In advance, thanks for the help. Rock On!

Best,
Chuck Fox

"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

tv@chuckfox.com
http://tv.chuckfox.com

[John Scott]

My brain is dull and I don't understand what the request is.

[ChuckFox]

JohnScott

Just looking to see if anybody has opinion on this domain name matter, as it is an odd situation I find myself in.

Maybe I worded it wrong

Chuck

[John Scott]

I think you got a good domain, but if they want to take it they might be able to. I used to have a domain that Seattle Times wanted and they hired some really spendy attorneys so I just gave it to them real cheap.