what's in a name?

[souzape]

I suggest that we look at the name of this website and then take a look a what's going on with the FFR website. Shelbys got his lawyers busy again. It might be worth it to all of us to remove "Cobra" from our site.

[pbrown]

I have thought about this. We are small and I hope under the radar of Ford and Shelby. I'm open to ideas and to what the domain name should be.

If a lawer told me to take the site down or be sued, the site will come down.

[aks801]

For that matter, might be a good idea to check the metatags, as those are one component of the lawsuit. The banner at the top also contains designations that might cause some trouble.

"uniqueroadsters" might be a candidate.

good gosh a mighty....

[Slither]

Bummer that he feels the need to stir the pot so many times over. He is only hurting his own reputation. I hope he gets chased out of the courtroom by the judge...

I thought that the Weavers had taken care of this once and for all, during a previous bout with him. I thought I heard that the judge told them not to try anything ever again in that jurisdiction.

Weavers can you comment?

[Slither]

Patrick,

How about just changing the domain name from uniquecobra to uniquemotorcarsforum, in order to ward off the potential issue?

[ralphscott]

I think the issue turns on the manufactuers of the Replicar kits and how they advertise their products. Now that Superperformance owns AC and have partnered with Ole' Shel they are making a concerted effort to wipe out competition to increase profitability. Now is perhaps a good time from their business perspective to do that as the disposable income available for such products is been reduced dramatically due to the current economic conditions. (Failure of Kit Car magaine is the most visible example that comes to my mind.) Thus the competitors of SuperPerformance are weakened and the marginal players will forego court challenges and cease to operate or settle.

As for our site name I would hate to see it changed, as we are not manufactuers. As we all are well aware Unique Motorcars has been dilligent is not using the cobra name or being associated with it and I would not like to see any spill over from our tying the two names together in our URL compromising their position.

I like Paul's suggestion. Again however the meta tags are an issue as for folks to find the site they type in what they specifically are interested in the search box of the web browser that they use. There are other Unique sites out there, but none other than ours that our specific to our kind of replicar.

So it is a conundrum as to how to name the site -- being specific to the manufactuer, as our cars are not ERA or FFR or Backdraft or Superperformance... they are Unique and have specific differences from those of other manufactuers. We are also interested, from a community of interest perspective, to introduce and meet others interested in the hobby (meta tag issue) and specifically the body style we like.

Maybe we need to have some private discussions on this topic.

Ralph

[RJacobsen]

Just read some of the complaint that was filed at the FFR site and was suprised (or not) to see that Shelby has registered trademarks for the word "289" as well as "427 SC" among the others. Much of the complaint deals with the fact that FFCobra.com has advertizing and sales availiable on the site. We'll see how all this pans out I'm sure.

[souzape]

I wonder how the Studebaker/Avanti folks feel about "289" being a registered trade mark for Shelby???? Don't try to apply logic to Shelby's actions....it won't work. I think we need to get "cobra" out of our domain name and I thnink we need to discuss the issue in an open forum as opposed to in private. I'm fed up with SAAC for their closed door policy and I've been fed up with Shelby (the man) for abou 35 years.

Phil Souza

[JeepSnake]

I wondered who else had read through the manifesto and seen that about "289."

I'd love to see 1) Chrysler lay the smack down, stating that they own the rights to the word "Daytona" in all automotive respects, or 2) the France family do the same thing. Did shelby have THEIR permission to use the name of THEIR race track and profit from the association thereof?

But, I agree with the posts above - I like Paul's suggestion of uniquemotorcarsforum.com.