AOL Threatens Peng, Demands Domain Handover

nutznboltz writes "According to the Peng project website AOL has sent them a cease-and-desist letter claiming that Peng, a GPLed software project is commerically exploiting AOL and has until Oct 15th to hand over the pengaol.com domain name." Update: 10/12 17:45 GMT by T : As several readers have pointed out, the domain name in question is actually pengaol.org, rather than pengaol.com.

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Slashdot Threatens every site on the web

[anonymous coword]

That has a / or . in its domain name. Since every one has that in their url, everyone with a domain name will be recieving a cease and desist letter from Rob Malda soon.

So many to sue...

[99bottles]

On a hunch, I did whois on aaol.com, baol.com, caol.com, daol.com, eaol.com, ...then I got bored.

It looks like they better start suing, they've got a lot of others using their trademark.

Important Message From AOL

[Anonymous Coward]

Ding! "You've got Sued"

Re:Slashdot - Challenge

[Anonymous Coward]

They'll probably sue /.

In the meantime, they also have forums. Not that I'm suggesting anything.

Re:Correction:

[kpansky]

Well, pengaol.com no longer hosts the Peng project... but at least you can browse the Apache 2.0 docs :)

Arent Fox sued

[Anonymous Coward]

20th Century Fox threatens Arent Fox, demands handover of the arentfox.com domain.

President Bush sued.

[nhavar]

A recent statement made by President George W. Bush at a press conference regarding the "digital divide" has drawn sharp criticism and a barrage of cease and desist letters from AOL (with attached AOL cds). The statement in question "We will work to get America online and bridge the digital divide" is said to be a violation of AOL (America On Line) intellectual property. Turd Ferguson, AOL's chief IP lawyer, stated "This is a clear attempt by the president to use AOL's good name to further his own cause" and added "As the world's best and fastest growing ISP we will be the one to get everyone online. Any statement to the contrary is just foolish and could give cause for litigation." When questioned about the issue Steve Case stated "Yeah what he said... Anyway all your friends are on it."

The President has refused any major comment on the issue but was quoted by a reliable inside source as mumbling something about "...modifying the draft, we need more lawyers and 40-something chairman to drop on Iraq".