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Apple’s Lawyers Slap Popular iPhone Modding Site with Domain Name Change Order

The site modmyiphone.com changed its name and domain services to modmyifone.com per the legal request of Apple counsel. This is significant only in that we’re surprised it took Apple this long to drop the hammer on the trademark infringers, especially after its fiasco with Cisco over the name iPhone in the first place.

This episode echoes what happened to a popular MINI Cooper enthusiast forum site when BMW sicked its legal on minicooperonline.com which forced it to change its name to northamericanmotoring.com in a bitter surrender.

The moral of the story is that it’s not a good idea to ever develop a web property using an obvious trademark. Legal precedent is now deeply in the favor of trademark holders. Gabriel Bridger got it right the first time when he named his famed MINI blog motoringfile.com in light of the “minicooperonline” controversy.