Monday, November 20, 2006

Will the real Zoho please stand up?

While browsing today, I found a site called Zohho.com, that claims to be a mobile social networking site. Make new friends and find old ones by sending them sms. Novel idea, although I personally think it is very intrusive. But thats not the reason I'm writing this. Look at the name! Sounds way too much like Zoho, a company I admire and have blogged about in the past. Dont do this, guys! You're damaging the brand value of both companies. I mean, if you are serious about your business, do not choose to be a me-too (name-wise). It is so un-cool, almost parasitic in nature.

I wonder if the Zoho guys know about this, and if they do, are they doing anything about it?

Update: Apparently they do. Arvind from Zoho sent me mail that their legal department is going to send them an anti-cybersquatting cease and desist notice shortly. I will update this post as this develops further.

Further Update: Zohho is now renamed to Wohho. The name issue got resolved quite quickly and amicably. Zohho.com also redirects to Wohho. Now I do not mind linking to their website.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Sowmya,

This is ashwin. I'm attending barcamp bangalore on saturday... Me and my pal Srinivas are presenting on web2.0. We would like to talk to you regarding this... It would be really nice if you could come online and talk to us on yahoo...

My id would be ashwin [dot] murali [at] yahoo [dot] com. I'm online...

See you...

Anonymous said...

Hey sowmya, I blog @ cruisemaniac [dot] wordpress [dot] com