Brand Name Hijacking

In this age of Cyber crime there is a trend that is occurring more frequently. Brand Name and Domain Name Hijacking.
What amounts to a form of "protection" for the prevention of domain hijacking is a business which can get rather costly.

This is the sometimes necessity of cross protection of domain name possibilities.
if one wants to interpret this as a protection racket, we would certainly understand.
    It has a lot to do with who is offering the "protection"

So to clarify JENA Technologies is an American Company and our identity is real easy to understand

Who we are at http://www.jenalabs.com/
More information:
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.jenalabs.com

Registered as United States ( What is it... .com )
       jenalabs.com

      jenatek.com

       These have been added as mirrors of our main domains as a protection from potential domain hijacking.
        jenalabs.cn

        jenatek.cn

Any other domains claiming to be us, are not.

As an example, here is a communication between us and an Internet domain registry company located in China:
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Dear Sir

We received a formal application from a company who is called Saibo Investment Co.,Ltd is applying to register " jenalabs " as their domain name in Asia as well as in Europe on September 17, 2008. During our auditing procedure we find out that the alleged Saibo Investment Co.,Ltd has no trade mark, brand nor patent even similar to that word. As an authorized anti-Cyber squatting organization we hereby suspect the alleged Saibo Investment Co.,Ltd to be a domain grabber. Hence we need your confirmation for two things, `

First of all, whether this alleged Saibo Investment Co.,Ltd is your business partner or distributor in China.

Secondly, whether you are interested in registering these domains (The alleged Saibo Investment Co.,Ltd will be entitled to obtain a domain not needed by original trademark owner.)

If you are not in charge of this please transfer this email to appropriate dept.

This is a letter for confirmation. If the mentioned third party is your business partner or distributor in China please DO NOT reply. We will automatically confirm application from your business partner after this audit procedure.

Best Wishes

Jason Wei

Registration Commissioner

Beijing HUAAO Science and Technology Co., Ltd

Tel: +86-10-82772601

Fax: +86-10-82773610

Email: Jason@ha-zd.org

Http://www.ha-zd.org

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To which I replied:
Greetings Jason,

We do not have any affiliation with Saibo Investment Co.,Ltd .
Saibo Investment Co., Ltd. is a SCAM. It has a bad reputation, without any useful activities other that to proliferate Cyber crime.

We ( JENA Technologies LLC ) own.... http://www.jenalabs.com/ -- as domains jenalabs.com, jenatek.com, jenalabs.cn, jenatek.cn   Thank you for the warning

Michael Crock
JENA Technologies LLC and dba, JENA Labs.

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Here is the polite reply:

Dear Michael,

Thanks for your reply which makes it clear that the alleged Saibo Investment Co,.Ltd is not your business partner in China. Our technology department has now frozen the domain as preservation since we suspect this mentioned third party to be a domain grabber who wants to apply these domains to online scam or unfair competition by misleading with domains under your company’s name. However, the domain is different from trademark, the trademark is sole and belong to only company or individual who registered it firstly. The domain registration is basically following the principle that who register first who get first. As an authorized anti-Cyber squatting organization we insist of offering priority to trademark owners. Nevertheless, if you are not interested in these below domains at present, the third party will be entitled to register them.

www.jenalabs.hk

www.jenalabs.tw

www.jenalabs.com.tw

www.jenalabs.asia

www.jenalabs.cc

www.jenalabs.tm

And the internet keyword: jenalabs

The internet keyword can be typed into IE address bar and go directly to assigned website, it do not need " www." nor ".com", ".net", etc. It is more convenient and more important.

If you want to register these domains as protection please feel free to contact us.

Looking forward to your soonest reply.

Yours sincerely

Jason
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The Question one asks is were does it stop?
On one hand these registration company's are trying to raise a little business.
It could even be argued that it is a necessary service... We get that too.
Naturally, they want money for protection of that which is already ours... :) Our identity...

That is the issue... We are who we are.

Do we need protection... Kind of like Al Capone's version of protection from our point of view.
If one capitulates to this sort of thing then they win.


We have a different solution.

Total exposure. The truth is out there. We the real JENA Labs is very easy to find.

What gives us this capability is that we are very strong on the internet...
We are a recognized global brand.
We use global W3C standards on our site... that means everyone is welcome to see us on the Internet with whatever browser anyone would choose to use.
From New Zealand to Australia... From Moscow through Beijing and back round to Los Angeles, California... USA, Iceland, Greenland, Newfoundland to the south pole.
Vertical and horizontal... We get around the world.
Our Web site is 10+ years old...

    If I start to type JENA La...... I can't even finish the word labs before this happens on Google...

    1,730,000 results on just, JENA LABS

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Yes, I can see how much protection we need to protect our identity.

So the message is simple, we are who we are:

jenalabs.com
jenatek.com

       These we have added as correct mirrors of our main domains as a protection from potential domain hijacking.

jenalabs.cn
jenatek.cn

    Anything else at this time is just a fake, fraud and phony... get the real thing... http://www.jenalabs.com/


JENA Technologies

In Portland Oregon.