This site could be next. An e-mail from the owner of the domain

FoMoCo.com

"Ok, folks, its official - the folks at Ford (actually, one of their outside
law firms) have obtained a court order to seize Fomoco.com, as of
early this morning. They will also be claiming two other domains I'd
paid for, but never developed.

I can't be certain when the 'site will go dark, so I'm assuming that is
imminent. Due to the vagaries of on-line technology, it may already
be unreachable from wherever you are, in the world.

I will try to have a temporary web-board set up by noon, Eastern, tho'
I'm not sure if that's soon enough. Meanwhile, I'm writing to a few of
you, privately. Some of you guys know each other, so maybe you can
pitch in and try to contact the others? If the Forum's still running, you
can grab some eMail addresses, from there.

Guess that's it, for now. I'll post (and write) again, later...soon as I've
got time & something useful to say.

Regards,

Allen Cross

 

good game

 

I was wondering when Allen's site was going to bite the dust.

 

I think it has more to do with the FoMoCo name and exact replica of the logo more than the Mustang name (which it didn't have anyway).

 

I agree... FoMoCo is a trade mark...

 

+1

shame tho, they should come to some sort of agreement, like a rental or TM fee.

 

Too bad this happened. But in support of Ford's argument...when I first saw FoMoCo.com in search results, I thought it was a Ford corporate site (being aware of that specific trademark).

Mustang is a bit more loose and Ford is probably going to be cautious about how it is used. I belong to MySportTrac.com which is a privately owned domain and privately managed. Ford loves that site and is now directing owners (and potential owners) to that site for owner support and info. They now advertise the site in the sales brochure for SportTracs.

I doubt that Ford is going to be as heavy-handed with the Mustang trademark as they were with FoMoCo...especially as it pertains to this site and others like it.

 

ditto