Ray - it looks like Disappearing Inc. has been disappearing.com for about 1.5 years longer than you've been disappearing-inc.com. In October 99, Maclen Marvit, the CEO of Disappearing, Inc. spoke at the Cypherpunks meeting in San Francisco, shortly after they had a front-page article in USA Today (may have been business front-page, but it was still really nice timing for a small startup to do their press release on a slow news day :-) And there was substantial discussion of them and their service in the Cypherpunks mailing list. Were you paying attention when you picked the name? Or had the meme just been floating around long enough after their announcement that it had gotten unstuck from its roots? You probably ought to sell them the name at cost. At 03:19 PM 9/25/00 -0400, Ray Dillinger wrote:
Correction:
After a web search through USPTO, I find that there is another company also named Disappearing Inc, on Howard street in San Francisco. This is probably the company that was referred to.
To clarify: I have done business as "disappearing inc", and I am the owner of the domain name "disappearing-inc.com", which I have not yet used.
This pisses me off.... now they'll probably try to evict me as a cybersquatter.
Ray Dillinger
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