Comments on: Daily dump: Mizzou not getting the hang of this web thing

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By: MizzAlum

MizzAlum — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:13:22 +0000

Wow..I’m embarrassed for us.

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Dallas Cowboys NFL Picks — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 05:55:57 +0000

This is really funny. I am very shocked that you cant buy a trademark named website, that’s ridiculous. Best use of redirect I have ever heard of.

By: Pavese

Pavese — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:04:57 +0000

*complementary pre-made forms that is.

By: Pavese

Pavese — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:03:58 +0000

Excellent point Ryan. Please forward the name of the law firm that sends out pre-made forms on company letterhead. All this time I thought lawyers were greedy bastards. Who knew?!

By: T-Bone

T-Bone — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:20:32 +0000

We get it. You’re proud of your university. That’s terrific, thanks for reading.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:52:26 +0000

No, T-Bone, there’s a trademarks and licensing office that monitors these things. They have a form ready to go when something like this happens.

Also, just how many should you/do you lock up? mizzou, missouri, universityofmissouri, uofm, mu, mizzoutigers, missouritigers, universityofmissouritigers, uofmtigers, mutigers, etc. are all out there and COULD represent the university. And think of all the extensions easily available for each one: .com, .edu, .net, .org, .us, .tv and many more. It’s a lot simpler to have the office that takes care of such things send out a pre-made form than to pay to register as many variants as you can think of.

By: T-Bone

T-Bone — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:39:11 +0000

So paying the university’s lawyers to write “a simple cease and desist letter” makes more sense to you than spending the extra $10 to lock up their domain names? That’s solid financial thinking.

Pavese is correct. There’s no defending this boneheaded blunder.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:04:19 +0000

To call administrators or the web department stupid over this is pretty ridiculous. When someone found the site, a simple cease and desist letter closed it up because Mizzou is a trademarked name.

With budget cuts from the state and requests to cut back spending in any way possible from the university, the “web department” doesn’t have the money to go registering every possible Mizzou-related domain out there. Just like in this case, when one is brought to the school’s attention, it gets taken care of.

So yes, at best, this was an ignorant post.

By: Pavese

Pavese — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:03:38 +0000

True indeed. Spending an extra $40 a year to lock up all of the domains related to their institution would be too much to ask. Douche.