Comments on: eBay Domain Trademark Mistake

By: 7AlienZain7

7AlienZain7 — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:02:14 +0000

I think it’s fake too, annoying as hell, pushy, and insulting. But it would be nice if someone here knew 100% for sure that it’s fake. The name signed at the bottom was Edith, even more annoying.

By: Cody

Cody — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:16:14 +0000

It’s a scam to steal your domain, I have looked everything up and its all false. Plus there is no, ebayenforcement.com

If you don’t believe me call eBay.

By: pat

pat — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:21:08 +0000

Ive had the same email about one of my domains, is this real or fake????? i looked up the domain whois and it says its registered to ebay inc etc… but they could have just filled this in when they registered the domain, but there is other info in the whois that is the same as ebay.com.

has anyone contacted ebay direct to see if its them?? does anyone know what to do???

I need to know what to do thanks

By: John

John — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:06:54 +0000

It’s a false threat

I received a message 2 weeks ago and I replied. I received no answer and this week I received another stating more threats. However it ended up in my junk mail folder. I doubt that ebay would send these messages from any other domain other than ebay domains since the dont get delivered. Besides there is no contact information, no telephone number to call no address. It’s a false mail.

By: Bob Dennis

Bob Dennis — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:22:39 +0000

I just recieved the same email concerning my undeveloped domain name containing ebay. In an attempt to reply, I found that the domain”ebayenforcement.com” is non existant. Further, if this notice were real, my domain registrar would have also been contacted. This has not been the case.
A true cease and desist notice would also contain clear and concise contact information as to how to reply to the notice. As in EVERY case so far listed here,that is also not the case.(I’ve got good lawyers, they tell me things like this).
so I have to agree with Anonymous in their line of thinking that someone is trying to scarf up expired domains with ebay in them.
Since there are more hurdles ebay would have to jump before actually filing suit, and since I really don’t believe that this notice actually came from Ebay, I am keeping my domain and I plan on renewing it and developing it!!

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By: Jason Fuller

Jason Fuller — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:04:58 +0000

There are 81,000 domains out there that contain “eBay” in them.

Seriously! Check it out.

I doubt even the most well resourced and legally fortified firms like eBay would waste their time suing 81,000 people; when about 99% haven’t even developed sites.

Additionally, these emails are analogous to all those PayPal-spoof emails people still get: they simply aren’t from eBay, just like those really aren’t from PayPal.

Check the IP server identification against eBay’s.

They most likely don’t even match!

Just some phishing scam to hijack your domain(s); nothing more.

By: Fernan

Fernan — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 06:24:56 +0000

I got same email from ebay.. what i did is shutdown my website http://www.christian-ebay.com

i think they send same email to all ebay related domains..

i never sale any ebay stuff just christian business directory how could they say am using ebay?

i just annoyed because my traffic on web site already reach 500+ unique enquiries just before i shutdown..

I did reply on them but til now they havent reply yet.. i told him ill shutdown my website but it doesnt mean i dont have rights to renew it again..

coz am using it as my personal email i will renew it, but using only as email will not turn it back live again.. grrrrr

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 04:28:34 +0000

Considering that there was no address, is it possible that it wasn’t from EBay ? It could be that someone is trying to pick up expired EBay domain names…

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 21:07:01 +0000

Patrick, what I’m worried about is the closing remark, “pursue all available remedies against you”.

Kristine, I’m glad you’re all prepared for moving your site. Let me know if you ever hear back from your email.

MoneyNing, I imagine eBay has a much bigger legal department, more money, and more time to find and pursue copyright issues, I bet you’ll be okay.