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IWO Website

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  • 09-12-2011 10:59pm
    #1
    backwind
    Registered Users Posts: 4 ✭


    I was mourning the demise of the Irish Weather Online website when I googled IWO this week to see if there was anything stirring. I found this - http://www.iwo.ie Best of luck to whoever set it up.


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    #2
    BEASTERLY
    Registered Users Posts: 1,789 ✭✭✭BEASTERLY


    backwind wrote: »
    I was mourning the demise of the Irish Weather Online website when I googled IWO this week to see if there was anything stirring. I found this - http://www.iwo.ie Best of luck to whoever set it up.

    Was the website hard to set up OP?


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    faktisperminute
    Registered Users Posts: 139 ✭✭faktisperminute


    promotion fail sooo obvious LOLOL must be your first time . Anyways good wordpress website make sure you fill it with good content and I'll bookmark :D


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    #4
    tricky D
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,700 ✭✭✭tricky D


    It's gonna be a shilly night indeed


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    #5
    greysides
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 8,974 Mod ✭✭✭✭greysides


    It looks good. Best of luck to the owner.

    The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. Joseph Joubert

    The ultimate purpose of debate is not to produce consensus. It's to promote critical thinking.

    Adam Grant



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    #6
    redsteveireland
    Registered Users Posts: 3,033 ✭✭✭redsteveireland


    Appropriate username for the content of your first post.

    paarrrp.


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    #7
    Tom Cruises Left Nut
    Registered Users Posts: 9,010 ✭✭✭Tom Cruises Left Nut


    Are you Maryse Lennon by any chance ? :p


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    #8
    backwind
    Registered Users Posts: 4 ✭backwind


    No


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    faktisperminute
    Registered Users Posts: 139 ✭✭faktisperminute


    backwind wrote: »
    No
    very nice second post you have made , some good progress is being made :D


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    Snowc
    Registered Users Posts: 613 ✭✭✭Snowc


    Op's link is a virus do not click.


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    #11
    Villain
    Registered Users Posts: 15,944 ✭✭✭✭Villain


    Snowc wrote: »
    Op's link is a virus do not click.
    It's not a virus!!


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    #12
    Tom Cruises Left Nut
    Registered Users Posts: 9,010 ✭✭✭Tom Cruises Left Nut


    Villain wrote: »
    It's not a virus!!

    I was just gonna say that !


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    #13
    snow ghost
    Registered Users Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭snow ghost


    Not that it's really any of my business, either way, but if that site isn't by the original owners of the other site, wouldn't breach of copyright law be a bit of a concern for whoever just created it?


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    vicwatson
    Registered Users Posts: 28,403 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    snow ghost wrote: »
    Not that it's really any of my business, either way, but if that site isn't by the original owners of the other site, wouldn't breach of copyright law be a bit of a concern for whoever just created it?

    NO the original website was - http://www.irishweatheronline.com/ a difference by some lettering !:rolleyes:


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    #15
    naughto
    Registered Users Posts: 7,325 ✭✭✭naughto


    Whois Search Results pdf_button.png printButton.png emailButton.png [Querying whois.domainregistry.ie]
    [whois.domainregistry.ie]

    % Rights restricted by copyright; http://iedr.ie/index.php/mnudomregs/mnudnssearch/96
    % Do not remove this notice

    domain: iwo.ie
    descr: Maryse Lennon
    descr: Sole Trader
    descr: Registered Business Name
    admin-c: ANY906-IEDR
    tech-c: AAM456-IEDR
    renewal: 04-November-2012
    status: Active
    nserver: ns1.blacknight.com
    nserver: ns2.blacknight.com
    source: IEDR

    person: Maryse Lennon
    nic-hdl: ANY906-IEDR
    source: IEDR

    person: Blacknight.ie Hostmaster
    nic-hdl: AAM456-IEDR
    source: IEDR


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    vicwatson
    Registered Users Posts: 28,403 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    naughto wrote: »
    Whois Search Results pdf_button.png printButton.png emailButton.png [Querying whois.domainregistry.ie]
    [whois.domainregistry.ie]

    % Rights restricted by copyright; http://iedr.ie/index.php/mnudomregs/mnudnssearch/96
    % Do not remove this notice

    domain: iwo.ie
    descr: Maryse Lennon
    descr: Sole Trader
    descr: Registered Business Name
    admin-c: ANY906-IEDR
    tech-c: AAM456-IEDR
    renewal: 04-November-2012
    status: Active
    nserver: ns1.blacknight.com
    nserver: ns2.blacknight.com
    source: IEDR

    person: Maryse Lennon
    nic-hdl: ANY906-IEDR
    source: IEDR

    person: Blacknight.ie Hostmaster
    nic-hdl: AAM456-IEDR
    source: IEDR

    And your point is...:rolleyes::confused:


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    #17
    naughto
    Registered Users Posts: 7,325 ✭✭✭naughto


    i dident say there was apoint


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    vicwatson
    Registered Users Posts: 28,403 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    naughto wrote: »
    i dident say there was apoint


    Didn't mean to sound sarcastic, was just wondering why you went to the bother of investigating the site? the original one that is...


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    #19
    Mc Love
    Registered Users Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Mc Love


    Anyone willing to bring up to date on what happened to iwo?


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    #20
    Purpleone
    Registered Users Posts: 9 ✭Purpleone


    Great to see IWO back in business :):)
    A LOT of people are going to be very happy

    Will ye be rehiring the old staff??


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    WolfeIRE
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,667 ✭✭✭WolfeIRE


    Purpleone wrote: »
    Great to see IWO back in business :):)
    A LOT of people are going to be very happy

    Will ye be rehiring the old staff??

    This blog is not linked in any way to IWO (Irish weather online). It simply uses the IWO name.


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    #22
    garyha
    Registered Users Posts: 70 ✭✭garyha


    Pretty weak calling the site irish weather online. you should maybe think of turning that off before you get yourself in trouble.


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    #23
    Purpleone
    Registered Users Posts: 9 ✭Purpleone


    WolfeIRE wrote: »
    This blog is not linked in any way to IWO (Irish weather online). It simply uses the IWO name.

    :confused: I think you might be wrong there maybe but they put this up on their IWO facebook a while back

    'ANNOUNCEMENT: Irishweatheronline is currently under new ownership! Details of the new owners of the site cannot be released due to a confidentiality agreement! The new owners are working on a new site which will hopefully be live soon, so stay tuned!'

    so that must be what goin on with the new site


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    #24
    WolfeIRE
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,667 ✭✭✭WolfeIRE


    Purpleone wrote: »

    The original IWO is offline and there is no other site being developed by the parties previously involved.

    The name has been taken on under false pretences. The name is copyrighted.


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    #25
    Purpleone
    Registered Users Posts: 9 ✭Purpleone


    WolfeIRE wrote: »
    The original IWO is offline and there is no other site being developed by the parties previously involved.

    The name has been taken on under false pretences. The name is copyrighted.

    Copyright takes years and deep pockets :(

    They should put a different announcement on FB becose everyones waiting for the new site


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    Joe Public
    Registered Users Posts: 1,778 ✭✭✭Joe Public


    WolfeIRE wrote: »
    The original IWO is offline and there is no other site being developed by the parties previously involved.

    The name has been taken on under false pretences. The name is copyrighted.

    Copyright is usually associated with protecting ideas or creations not names.

    If it's a company name it can be registered as a company or if it's a logo it can be registered as a trademark. IWO.ie must have been available as a domain name so there is no problem using it.

    You could register www.met-eireann.ie and start working away on it.


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    #27
    WolfeIRE
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,667 ✭✭✭WolfeIRE


    Joe Public wrote: »
    Copyright is usually associated with protecting ideas or creations not names.

    Spot on, Joe. There is nothing to stop anyone buying a domain name and operating a website from same.

    My point is that IWO trading as Irish Weather Online was registered earlier this year. That point was made to emphasise that IWO, trading as Irish Weather Online, has no involvement with this site and the intended use and marketing of the IWO name in the latter is poor form to say the least. Good luck to them though. The more websites dealing with Irish weather that there are, the more informed we all will be.

    As for the IWO website, it is no longer online but very well may return in the future.


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    #28
    naughto
    Registered Users Posts: 7,325 ✭✭✭naughto


    vicwatson wrote: »
    Didn't mean to sound sarcastic, was just wondering why you went to the bother of investigating the site? the original one that is...

    i went to the bother because the iwo.ie site is poorly but together and i wanted to know if it was the same people that had the original site.i now know that it isent.if u are going to set it up right your going the wrong way about it u have allready pissed of wofie who knows more than all the weather heads on this form put together


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    #29
    Su Campu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,279 ✭✭✭Su Campu


    The original site was irishweatheronline.COM, this one is iwo.IE. A rip off of the original and an attempt to piggyback on its success if you ask me.

    Some shady dealings going on here with some of our weather boardsies.


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    #30
    Tom Cruises Left Nut
    Registered Users Posts: 9,010 ✭✭✭Tom Cruises Left Nut


    It really is bad form, something should be said on the IWO facebook page


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    #31
    snow ghost
    Registered Users Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭snow ghost


    Joe Public wrote: »
    Copyright is usually associated with protecting ideas or creations not names.

    If it's a company name it can be registered as a company or if it's a logo it can be registered as a trademark. IWO.ie must have been available as a domain name so there is no problem using it.

    You could register www.met-eireann.ie and start working away on it.

    The relevant legislation presumably covers brands, brand names, etc. Cadburys have their purple brand color protected.

    You can't just set up a very similar branded business / website to someone else and call it the same name and ride on the back of their hard work building their brand, etc.

    And I don't believe you could register www.met-eireann.ie and work away on it. Ireland has fairly strict criteria in registering .ie domains to prevent such misuse. I think it all stems from the Bertie Ahern debacle where someone registered the domain, put porn on it and wanted big money to sell it to the real Bertie.


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