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Re: BitBay OFFICIAL BITBAY Thread Smart Contracts Decentralized Markets Rolling Peg
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Preventative.Measures
on 03/08/2017, 05:56:40 UTC
Any solution to the identically named BitBay exchange, other than hope for its immanent demise?

Going for the immanent demise  Cheesy

Seriously, there isn't much we can do about it except working on SEO. And SEO work has started as you can see from our community updates.

Even with SEO work, I think they'll be in the top 3-5 search results regardless.  It can get very confusing to the new user when hearing about bitbay for the first time and finding the exchange instead.  Everything from the logo to the colorscheme is very similar.

It's a legitimate problem, there's no doubt of that.  Has anyone on the team probed the legalities of the trademark?  We're talking international law (in eastern europe no less) so it's a shot in the dark, but due dilligence in matters such as these separates the chaff from the wheat.  It's one of those forest for the trees issues, deceptively critical for the project's success.

Knowing Poles they'll ask for money if you try and play nice, so maybe a cease and desist right out the gate is the way to play it.  Doing nothing or going with a passive option like SEO work is not your path to success.