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September 27 Taipei reported that big companies are implementing legal action to get back to the Internet domain name incident, which is the local user of the portal leader. 

Ckyuan, a netizen who registered with the same name as a Web site flickr.tw and used as a personal blog site by Yahoo's merger and acquisition, said last week that he had received a letter from a lawyer Chairesen lawyer from the law firm, hacks, who published an article on Flickr Inform its registered flickr.tw domain has violated Yahoo (Yahoo!) trademark and violates the Fair trade law suspicion, asked it to transfer the FLICKR.TW Web site to Yahoo, Ckyuan in addition to post the contents of the letter, and announced that will be closed within one months, thank you for the two years of support ... I am a small people, very afraid of the defendant ... He said in his blog.

Webmaster Ckyuan wrote on the blog that he attaches great importance to the relevant legal provisions, so decided to close the station and will return the domain to the Yahoo company.

CNET tried to contact the Web site on FLICKR.TW's website with the user and Yahoo's appointed lawyer Chairesen, but was unable to get a response until the deadline. FLICKR.TW Web site for the creation of Netizens Ckyuan blog, content for webmaster personal development Flickr API related application experience and examples to share, and as a community, and so Yahoo's lawyer letter was open, it caused netizens to talk.

For example, netizens believe that flickr.tw in  and the Chinese-speaking region to provide a large number of practical Flickr site and related information, and some people bluntly ckyuan through the site for Flickr to do a lot of publicity, outspoken by Yahoo after the merger and the change, Yahoo unexpectedly directly with a letter to warn, this is too chilling! The signature Liya netizen on the website message way.

Yahoo Big big Defend the network domain name practices, in the network era emerge endlessly, also reflected the network time domain name as the Enterprise brand management part of importance. For example, Apple has won a British company that has registered the iTunes.co.uk Web site, and Microsoft has also filed lawsuits in various places to register with the company's service name or related website.

Kanchan Mhatre, Vice President of CSC (Corporation Service Company), which provides global domain name management services, also disclosed in an earlier visit that Microsoft is the MSN (now renamed Live) of its online business division. More than 10 million dollars have been spent on domain management, highlighting the importance that multinational companies attach to domain name management.

Although the Yahoo event has been on the web for nearly a week,  Kimo said that the legal action is the U.S. head office directly commissioned a law firm, the company was informed of the matter after the news, and began to understand.

Yahoo., Hu Sifei, a PR director, said the company did not notify  when it took action, but had been informed by internal plumbing, but had not been able to get a specific response because of jet lag.

She said that sending a letter of attorney was just the first step in the company's claim to power, the purpose is only to inform the other party of the relevant rights and obligations, and because it is a legal document, the wording of the content will inevitably make people feel not close, she believes that the fierce reaction of netizens may be caused by not accustomed to legal documents, we have confirmed that this site is not malicious, Therefore, in the internal documents issued to the head office has told the matter,  branch is also willing to serve as a bridge between the two sides, such as the provision of translation services, to avoid misunderstanding the expansion, she said.

As for , it is possible to persuade the head office to give up the decision to flickr.tw the net domain, Hui Hui said that the legal issues still have to be resolved by law, she could not determine the United States position is likely to change.

She also suggested that local users, although Yahoo-Mo also provided both Flickr and nameless station two albums service, but because the unnamed is from  itself, the dispute can be directly resolved by the  side, she suggested that users may consider priority to use the services of the unnamed station.

    It is worth noting that this Yahoo Kimo to local users to lawyer Hanso News today after the media attention, Yahoo in the evening temporarily notify the major media, the original scheduled for 27th, And will be the new general manager Hong in person to be present at the newly delivered email service will be postponed. Hui Hui Princess clarified two events are not related, delayed the new e-mail service is due to the company's temporary notice will extend the Overseas market mail service upgrade operation time, the  region will be postponed a few geniuses will start to upgrade, and therefore will be published will be rescheduled. (Zebian Admin01)