New Software Store - www.pocketpcgear.com

[wiredguy]

Hey,

Just wanted to announce the launch of my new PPC Software store at www.pocketpcgear.com (http://www.pocketpcgear.com). Give it a browse next time your looking for a software solution.

[wiredguy]

The site look has now been streamlined to load much faster...

[Sven Johannsen]

Isn't that name awful close to the other one? i.e. pocketgear? Can't imagine they are going to be to pleased.

[ppcinfo]

Isn't that name awful close to the other one? i.e. pocketgear?
That was probably done intentionally.

[Sven Johannsen]

Isn't that name awful close to the other one? i.e. pocketgear?
That was probably done intentionally.

Uh-huh, and it will likely be contested, whether accidental, or intentional.

[wiredguy]

Isn't that name awful close to the other one? i.e. pocketgear?
That was probably done intentionally.

The fact is... we've owned and oporated www.pocketpcgear.com since before www.pocketgear.com existed. If anyone has a right to use and market the name, it should be us.

[wiredguy]

Copied from the "WhoIS" database of domain names:


Domain Name: POCKETPCGEAR.COM
Created on: 29-Oct-99
Expires on: 29-Oct-05


Domain Name: POCKETGEAR.COM
Created on: 06-Jan-00
Expires on: 06-Jan-06

[ppcinfo]

Copied from the "WhoIS" database of domain names:


Domain Name: POCKETPCGEAR.COM
Created on: 29-Oct-99
Expires on: 29-Oct-05


Domain Name: POCKETGEAR.COM
Created on: 06-Jan-00
Expires on: 06-Jan-06

Question: Why did it take over 5 years before you decided to open your "new store"?

[Sven Johannsen]

Well, evidently you registered the name first. I'd say you would need a pretty good lawyer though if you are just now starting to do something with it and Pocketgear wants to make something of it. Good luck. After all Mike Rowe had his name before MS was established. He still wasn't allowed to market under the name MikeRoweSoft.

[wiredguy]

Question: Why did it take over 5 years before you decided to open your "new store"?

I'd been using it to sell my own PPC products before that... just now opened the store. So, it has been in use since I bought it... just not for a full store.

[wiredguy]

Well, evidently you registered the name first. I'd say you would need a pretty good lawyer though if you are just now starting to do something with it and Pocketgear wants to make something of it. Good luck. After all Mike Rowe had his name before MS was established. He still wasn't allowed to market under the name MikeRoweSoft.

Nah... if anything I should have the right to go after them. I have been using the name to promote my own PPC products before... and just now started an estore. That said... even if I was using it to sell monkeys... the name is all that is important... and I had first dibs.

[ppcinfo]

How are you able to sell commerical Pocket PC software without the developer's permission? I'm a developer and I noticed that my software is being sold on your site without my permission. Unless, of course, you are simply Handango.com under a different name. Can you please explain?

ppcinfo

[wiredguy]

How are you able to sell commerical Pocket PC software without the developer's permission? I'm a developer and I noticed that my software is being sold on your site without my permission. Unless, of course, you are simply Handango.com under a different name. Can you please explain?

ppcinfo

As I understand it, Handango has developers check a box off giving permission for their software to be listed on "affiliate" stores. Sales of your software from my site will come to you in a check from handango...

[upplepop]

So why not just go to Handango (http://www.handango.com) instead of your store?

[wiredguy]

So why not just go to Handango (http://www.handango.com) instead of your store?

Why not go to PocketPCGear.com instead of Handango? Same reasons... if they find me first, they are likely to buy through me. It's just more opportunity for them and their software developers to sell their products.

[wiredguy]

So why not just go to Handango (http://www.handango.com) instead of your store?

Why not go to PocketPCGear.com instead of Handango? Same reasons... if they find me first, they are likely to buy through me. It's just more opportunity for them and their software developers to sell their products.

Also, it's more exposure and more people promoting that software. In other words... I will be promoting it separate of Handango... so it will reach a bigger audience.

[ppcinfo]

So why not just go to Handango (http://www.handango.com) instead of your store?

Why not go to PocketPCGear.com instead of Handango? Same reasons... if they find me first, they are likely to buy through me. It's just more opportunity for them and their software developers to sell their products.

Also, it's more exposure and more people promoting that software. In other words... I will be promoting it separate of Handango... so it will reach a bigger audience.

I'm curious, how are you promoting your site differently than Handango.com?

ppcinfo

[wiredguy]

I'm curious, how are you promoting your site differently than Handango.com?

ppcinfo

Asking for trade secrets? :P

You know... good old marketing. I get a few hundred shoppers coming through my store daily... and those are customers that *may* not have found Handango if they didn't come through my site.

[ppcinfo]

Asking for trade secrets? :P
No, just wondering what you are doing differently than Handango.com to promote your web site. Of all the web surfing I do, I've only come across your web site mentioned in maybe two different discussion forums. No need to divulge your "Trade Secrets"...

ppcinfo

[JustinGTP]

When I click on your link to http://www.pocketpcgear.com I get taken to http://www.handango.com

Care to explain?

-Justin.