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    #32
    snow ghost
    Registered Users Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭snow ghost


    This latest site is obviously a vexatious attempt to aggravate and annoy.

    To be honest, to whomever is behind it, it is pretty pathetic behavior. Why would anyone spend time doing such?

    Why not invest as much energy in actually setting up an original site for genuine positive reasons?

    Bizarre behavior.


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    #33
    Joe Public
    Registered Users Posts: 1,778 ✭✭✭Joe Public


    snow ghost wrote: »
    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.

    Ok, no problem in getting a .com


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    #34
    backwind
    Registered Users Posts: 4 ✭backwind


    I set up this thread.

    I have no involvement in the new IWO site or any other site and don't know who is operating the site. My original intention was to draw your attention to the existence of a new weather related site. I was surprised that the new IWO site was online for a few days and there was no buzz about it on these forums. I had assumed that a user of these forums had set the site up. I was expecting some enlightenment from yourselves. This thread has now turned into a dispute about copyright etc.

    My interest and that of many people is the establishment of a weather related site of similar calibre and scope of the original Irish Weather Online site. I would like this thread to concentrate on this rather than disputes over copyright. Perhaps the more experienced of you could facilitate this either through cooperating with the new site or establishing a new one.


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    #35
    Deep Easterly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,150 ✭✭✭Deep Easterly


    snow ghost wrote: »
    This latest site is obviously a vexatious attempt to aggravate and annoy.

    To be honest, to whomever is behind it, it is pretty pathetic behavior. Why would anyone spend time doing such?

    Why not invest as much energy in actually setting up an original site for genuine positive reasons?

    Bizarre behavior.

    I have to agree. I actually think it isn't a bad looking site at all and obviously there has been work put into it but something does not sit right with me about it at all. If it was under any other (original) name I would commend without limit but in using the 'IWO' name tag I can't help thinking that this site and thread was designed simply to provoke and invoke reaction - which, so far, has succeeded in doing so far it would seem.
    I may well be wrong and if it was set up with genuine and with the best of intentions then the best of luck with it.


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    #36
    RadioRetro
    Registered Users Posts: 2,090 ✭✭✭RadioRetro


    t|nt|n wrote: »
    It really is bad form, something should be said on the IWO facebook page
    This just in... "Irish Weather Online
    CLARIFICATION: A newly launched website, www.iwo.ie, is in no way related to Irish Weather Online or services provided by IWO despite clear branding references to indicate otherwise. The irishweatheronline.com website is offline at present."

    https://www.facebook.com/pages/Irish-Weather-Online/175249952491394


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    #37
    Villain
    Registered Users Posts: 15,944 ✭✭✭✭Villain


    Deep Easterly wrote: »
    I have to agree. I actually think it isn't a bad looking site at all and obviously there has been work put into it but something does not sit right with me about it at all. If it was under any other (original) name I would commend without limit but in using the 'IWO' name tag I can't help thinking that this site and thread was designed simply to provoke and invoke reaction - which, so far, has succeeded in doing so far it would seem.
    I may well be wrong and if it was set up with genuine and with the best of intentions then the best of luck with it.

    I am the one behind the site it has been setup as a community based site to provide people with weather information and to allow them to share their weather stories and photos.

    I didn't intend to put the site live yet but google crawled and it someone found it (btw I have no clue who the OP is).

    The domain was made available to me and I embraced it as I am already active on the net with Carlowweather.com for some time.

    I could have chosen a new name but IWO is nice and simple domain name and the term is generic and I have been posting about Irish Weather Online for years.

    I'm sure it will offend some people but this site is not commercial and any money earned from it will be used for weather projects.

    The site is a simple basic Wordpress template but I would like to get it developed and make it easier for people to contribute as the first post states http://iwo.ie/2011/12/05/irish-weather-online-launches/

    This site may not be a success but I think its worth trying.


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    #38
    Tom Cruises Left Nut
    Registered Users Posts: 9,010 ✭✭✭Tom Cruises Left Nut


    * Grabs popcorn


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    #39
    ninebeanrows
    Registered Users Posts: 12,778 ✭✭✭✭ninebeanrows


    Right i am closing this one now lads.


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