I had never heard of http://cafe-de-flore.com/ before I received their email yesterday. I made a web site for my friends, never thinking a small cafe in an obscure city in Costa Rica could be mistaken for a world-famous location thousands of miles away in Paris, France.
(Though their fame may be a result of believing their [...]
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I got an interesting letter today from a French legal firm, casually accusing me of fraud and bad faith, over my registration of the nearly-generic domain name cafedeflores.com
I immediately took the domain name off-line, in part to demonstrate my intent to comply with the law, and also partly out of fear. Now I’m having second [...]
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