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by: nivine

Wed, 27 Dec 2006 10:23:46 +0000

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by: zudku2005

Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:10:26 +0000

So Baig, you think anyone launching www.microsoft.ae or www.oracle.ae or www.pizzahut.ae will be fine?

Where are you coming from dude? You have no fragging idea what your talking about.

It doesnt matter what currency anyone charges on their website. You cannot use a copyright/intellectual property from another company and expect to get away with it. Its cheap, its lame, and whoever does this (there are a lot of companies and individuals in the UAE) are born losers.

Sure you can have an online business as same as anyone else, but please have the decency to have a unique brand and logo. Business models are not intellectual property in ANY country. But logos, colours, Id’s, slogans and taglines ARE.

For a good measure of how one can actually successfully launch a business like this, please take a look at www.souq.com. They are known as the eBay of UAE, and for good measure.

by: Baig

Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:59:15 +0000

ebay.ae is correct because he is using AED not USD make notice of all part before making any eyes on any one… ebay.com is not the only one can do business in world, every one can do his business, i can say ebay,.ae is right upto his part

by: Kichu

Wed, 05 Jul 2006 13:31:15 +0000

Domain name [ ebay.ae] = USD 4.00
500 MB webhosting = USD 60.00
Ebay clone website script = USD 420.00

Total capital required to relaunch eBay Inc in Dubai: USD 484.00

…………………………………………………………………………………….

Request:
I want to open a new microsoft, please someone from dubai, send me your quotation…

Thanks

by: angelo

Fri, 23 Jun 2006 10:46:50 +0000

Well I’m sure Bahrain will get the ip law figured out fine.. I just hope we don’t have any more ridiculous calls (which never worked anyways) to register our blogs and websites in the future…like we’ve seen in the past…

by: PJ

Wed, 21 Jun 2006 06:30:26 +0000

Ha! Hope this acts as a catalyst for a proper internet law….not sure who’d take the initiative though. As for Bahrain, the Bahrain Internet Society along with the Ecommerce directorate (Ministry of Commerce) is actively pursuing this. Inshallah, in the next year or so, especially with the http://www.e.gov.bh/ we should have a pioneer as far as E-Laws are concerned!

by: Roanldo Mouchawar

Tue, 20 Jun 2006 11:41:41 +0000

From my personal experience in Ecommerce in the Middle East copying a website without revising the model would not work….

There are many variations in the way people shop and expect to shop online in the region; any successful website would need to tailor, revise and even change the services.

What worked for souq.com is what is not available on ebay and not the opposite.

by: Martin Diessner

Fri, 16 Jun 2006 10:14:56 +0000

Agree dotone - in fact I contacted eBay.com about 4 years ago but they never got back to me - obviously Middle East too small for them to license them as ASP model.

Anyways - as you say, it’s just another rip-off that is not too surprising - this region (wtihout any proper legal framework) obviously encourages people to do that.

by: dotone

Fri, 16 Jun 2006 06:11:52 +0000

We’ve had enough of rip-offs already so this wasn’t such a breaking news to me. I still don’t get it. It ain’t about a website, it ain’t about the domain name, it’s about the business model down there. Instead, why don’t they try to get some partnership with eBay and get the region out of credit-card-usage-fear since they can efford it?

This still indicates a sad thing to me which is: a website is a website, not that a website is a business/brand interface online or the business itself–again it’s one of those uninformed shots by disconnected people.

While this is an application of a service while ripping-off the whole identity there are 1000s of services and websites that do that but under a different umbrella/brand in Dubai.