Thursday, December 14, 2006
Afriville
Afriville.com is an idea that was stolen from me. I blogged about the exact idea on this blog in september 2006.
here is a link to the post http://africanmusic.blogspot.com/2006_09_01_africanmusic_archive.html
As you can see this post was made on the 1st of september 2006 and afriville.com was only registered on the 14th of november 2006, thats a month and two weeks after I blogged about the idea. (you can go to whois.com and check for a domain name's availability and also find out when it is registered when you click on look up domain from the whois result page).
In my blog post I talked about making afriville.com an african social networking site, and that is exactly what the people that copied my idea ended up doing. This is a direct lifting of my idea.
I plan to take legal and online action.
The obvious thing is that the people that now own afriville, came across my idea and picked even the domain i wrote in the post and registered without consulting or informing me.
Thats a very dumb thing to do. Now what if they lose the domain name?
any contribution or advice, drop me a comment.
here is a link to the post http://africanmusic.blogspot.com/2006_09_01_africanmusic_archive.html
As you can see this post was made on the 1st of september 2006 and afriville.com was only registered on the 14th of november 2006, thats a month and two weeks after I blogged about the idea. (you can go to whois.com and check for a domain name's availability and also find out when it is registered when you click on look up domain from the whois result page).
In my blog post I talked about making afriville.com an african social networking site, and that is exactly what the people that copied my idea ended up doing. This is a direct lifting of my idea.
I plan to take legal and online action.
The obvious thing is that the people that now own afriville, came across my idea and picked even the domain i wrote in the post and registered without consulting or informing me.
Thats a very dumb thing to do. Now what if they lose the domain name?
any contribution or advice, drop me a comment.
