QiSoftware.WHO?

While searching Google recently, for all references of my business name, QiSoftware, a new domain name -- "qisoftware.net" caught my attention. The range of emotions that I experienced on seeing this new entry in "my" Internet space was -- mild irritation to utter disbelief that someone had the audacity to use my name...? This of course is a tongue in cheek exaggeration -- over this new turn of events.

After following the link provided by Google, I was presented with a page that proclaimed -- "This Site Is Under Construction and Coming Soon". In consolation, the page offered free use of the registration entity's search utility until such time the site becomes operational.


My "oh so clever" business name was being used by someone else. %#*#&$^## -- [Sorry, the only part I can translate is the "&" -> and]. I picked out my "clever" new business name over two years ago [qisoftware.com, registered June 2002], after deciding that my former name RDT & Associates, sounded a bit too much like a law firm. [In the process of choosing a new business name, I checked search engines and with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office which produced no results or references for the name "qisoftware". ] It is a good thing that I am not a magician -- because that new domain name would have been no longer if my wishful glare had -- had it's way.

After my momentary disbelief, I went in search of the owner of this new site [register.com provided assistance here] and the answer to -- what could be done about removing it from the Internet. The site had been registered earlier this month [August 2004] and absolutely nothing could be done about it.

All kidding aside, I have found one other site [qi247inc.com, registered January 2003], that uses a "qisoftware.html" as part of its content. This page sometimes gets a higher ranking in search engines than does my "qisoftware.com" when "qisoftware" is the search query. I guess I will have to look on the bright side -- maybe someone will find my site because they were looking for his...