.:HSTuners::

IALuder · 03-23-2007, 03:20 PM

which would do you choose is best?

*KwikR6* · 03-27-2007, 03:15 PM

I like the old name...

IALuder · 03-27-2007, 08:25 PM

ok eight people vote but one post why they choose which...

GT40FIED · 03-27-2007, 09:17 PM

I voted for the old name just because I like it well enough and I'm too lazy to think of a new one. If someone's got a better name I'd be willing to change my mind.

blind34_1 · 04-01-2007, 02:30 AM

well, unless I am mistaken, just about everyone that is currently still around, or even remotely around (like me), were here when the site was called by its original name. seems only fitting to go back.

Kalvin · 04-01-2007, 06:00 PM

Renaming the "hstuners" to something like "honda style tuners" around the forum is easy, but getting back the .com would be tough. Honda's lawyers got their panties in a bunch and confiscated the domain back in 8/04

I may have gotten the last hurrah when I went shopping for a new car four months later and didn't even consider stepping foot onto a honda dealership.

IALuder · 04-01-2007, 08:07 PM

so why cant we use it? do they own it? if so we would have to buy it?

damn.

*ChrisCantSkate* · 04-02-2007, 08:30 AM

legal issues, cant use hondas name. trademarked, would be free and false advertising for the site

ebpda9 · 04-02-2007, 10:14 AM

how about www.honda.net????

*ChrisCantSkate* · 04-02-2007, 10:21 AM

anything with honda in it they can sue you for, its a trademarked name, you cant use it for your own personal gains(ie, traffic, search engine results, or any other way which makes the site with honda in it) it makes the false presumption that the site in question is a child company or afilliate of the actual morot company. trademarks are protected under federal law, so the chances of winning the suit, expecially after their 04 case in which the precident was set, is about 0

GT40FIED · 04-02-2007, 11:52 AM

What about using "Honda" in the name with a ".org" suffix? I mean, .org is reserved for any site that is not for profit. I don't think it would be too hard to prove that this site is not for profit. It might have ads, but I really don't think Kalvin is making money off of this site. And since Stefan no longer uses the Styledright name I don't see a problem there.

*ChrisCantSkate* · 04-02-2007, 12:48 PM

im only about 95% sure, but i think anything with "honda" in it is in violation of the 04 suite, and it a copyright and or trademark infringment. its like having microsoft.org, and have something remotly related to software, but just talk about it. it misrepresents the company as a 3rd party would or could assume that it has something to do with the real company. the uninformed could then come to the assumption that anything on the site in question is backed by the host company, which it is not, which could bring about unwanted and unjust lawsuites on the real company, and in turn, the site not affiliated with said company, if any information found on the site has not had the research behind it that the host company would want to have done before recommending their consumers to try anything to their product.

you can slice it a number of ways, anything from the how-to section not being 100% at hondas standard, to recommending aftermarket parts which honda would not stand behind, then if anything on your car goes wrong, and you feed the line "well on some *honda*.* site it said it was ok" now they have to take legal actions to shift blame from them to the site owner. but since they own the name honda, they have legal rights to it, so by saying no one can use their name without permission, they help make themselves more secure when it comes to liability and false advertising with their name.

sorry for the long winded legal type responce, my law classes are doing it to me.

GT40FIED · 04-02-2007, 04:06 PM

While that does make sense, what about the bigger sites that have continued to use the Honda name? I mean if anyone is going to say "I went to a Honda website and they said to do this", you'd think it'd be more inline with a site like Honda-Tech.

*ChrisCantSkate* · 04-02-2007, 05:00 PM

honestly, i dont know why they didnt change, i know a buch did, a few didnt. could be legal battles behind the scenes, grandfathered in or whatnot, but like i said, im not 100% but i think its next to impossible to get a *honda*.* name now and not have them send you a little notice

blind34_1 · 04-02-2007, 05:22 PM

ahh i forgot to check to see who now owns the hondastyle.com name. its Honda themselves. those bastards.

http://www.networksolutions.com/whoi...hondastyle.com

thermal · 04-02-2007, 05:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by blind34_1

ahh i forgot to check to see who now owns the hondastyle.com name. its Honda themselves. those bastards.

http://www.networksolutions.com/whoi...hondastyle.com

Fuckin bitches!

2000Pimpinex · 04-05-2007, 07:55 AM

I vote for the old name back.

Racing Rice · 04-05-2007, 02:03 PM

How about Fuckhonda.com then.

IALuder · 04-05-2007, 06:08 PM

hmmmm interesting. i think it might work.

we might have to actually think of a new name.

*KwikR6* · 04-13-2007, 11:11 AM

ok i guess it's time to think of a new name for the site. Becuase if Honda actually owns www.hondastyle.com then that's out. so time to start brainstorming.

*KwikR6* · 04-13-2007, 11:16 AM

ok here is the thread for new names
http://www.hstuners.com/forums/showt...575#post298575

CD5Passion · 04-15-2007, 10:35 AM

superhonda.com is still around, and thats a huge frickin site.

*KwikR6* · 04-18-2007, 04:03 PM

i don't know....i can't explain it

i'm not the owner of the board..nor am i honda...

GT40FIED · 04-18-2007, 05:37 PM

I say we offer a human sacrifice to Kali. Any takers?

View Poll Results: which do you prefer?
keep this name	1	8.33%
go back to old school Hondastyle	8	66.67%
or think of a new one	3	25.00%
Voters: 12. You may not vote on this poll

03-23-2007, 03:20 PM	#1
IALuder Registered User Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Des Moines IA Age: 39 Posts: 7,908	the next STEP in this board which would do you choose is best? __________________ 93 Si H23vtec......soon to be 12lbs 95 Civic EX....automatic DD if you cant dazzle them with your brillance, baffle them with your bullshit.

03-27-2007, 03:15 PM	#2
KwikR6 Mind Blowing Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Cloud 69 Age: 45 Posts: 8,871	I like the old name... __________________ I JDM. I My Honda The epitome of stupidity is expressed so fluidly with the shity lyric theory you try to spit at me. I CAN'T WAIT FOR SUMMER!!!

03-27-2007, 08:25 PM	#3
IALuder Registered User Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Des Moines IA Age: 39 Posts: 7,908	ok eight people vote but one post why they choose which... __________________ 93 Si H23vtec......soon to be 12lbs 95 Civic EX....automatic DD if you cant dazzle them with your brillance, baffle them with your bullshit.

03-27-2007, 09:17 PM	#4
GT40FIED Best...mod...ever Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: At the end of the longest line Age: 43 Posts: 7,451	I voted for the old name just because I like it well enough and I'm too lazy to think of a new one. If someone's got a better name I'd be willing to change my mind. __________________ 1984 1/2 Mustang GT350 #842, Faster than you...nuff said Anna Fan Club President/Dictator Someday, in the event that mankind actually figures out what it is that this world actually revoles around, thousands of people are going to be shocked and perplexed that it was not them. Sometimes this includes me. "If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever." - George Orwell Welcome to the new Amerika

04-01-2007, 02:30 AM	#5
blind34_1 Registered User Join Date: May 2002 Location: IL Age: 41 Posts: 1,813	well, unless I am mistaken, just about everyone that is currently still around, or even remotely around (like me), were here when the site was called by its original name. seems only fitting to go back.

04-01-2007, 06:00 PM	#6
Kalvin Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: atl Posts: 129	Renaming the "hstuners" to something like "honda style tuners" around the forum is easy, but getting back the .com would be tough. Honda's lawyers got their panties in a bunch and confiscated the domain back in 8/04 I may have gotten the last hurrah when I went shopping for a new car four months later and didn't even consider stepping foot onto a honda dealership.

04-01-2007, 08:07 PM	#7
IALuder Registered User Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Des Moines IA Age: 39 Posts: 7,908	so why cant we use it? do they own it? if so we would have to buy it? damn. __________________ 93 Si H23vtec......soon to be 12lbs 95 Civic EX....automatic DD if you cant dazzle them with your brillance, baffle them with your bullshit.

04-02-2007, 08:30 AM	#8
ChrisCantSkate Thought Police Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: orlando florida Age: 41 Posts: 9,662	legal issues, cant use hondas name. trademarked, would be free and false advertising for the site __________________ Black Vtec Prelude-h22a power'd Many dreams come true, and some have silver linings. I live for my dreams and a pocket full of gold.

04-02-2007, 10:14 AM	#9
ebpda9 Repost Wagon Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: over here Age: 44 Posts: 17,266	how about www.honda.net???? __________________

04-02-2007, 10:21 AM	#10
ChrisCantSkate Thought Police Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: orlando florida Age: 41 Posts: 9,662	anything with honda in it they can sue you for, its a trademarked name, you cant use it for your own personal gains(ie, traffic, search engine results, or any other way which makes the site with honda in it) it makes the false presumption that the site in question is a child company or afilliate of the actual morot company. trademarks are protected under federal law, so the chances of winning the suit, expecially after their 04 case in which the precident was set, is about 0 __________________ Black Vtec Prelude-h22a power'd Many dreams come true, and some have silver linings. I live for my dreams and a pocket full of gold.

04-02-2007, 11:52 AM	#11
GT40FIED Best...mod...ever Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: At the end of the longest line Age: 43 Posts: 7,451	What about using "Honda" in the name with a ".org" suffix? I mean, .org is reserved for any site that is not for profit. I don't think it would be too hard to prove that this site is not for profit. It might have ads, but I really don't think Kalvin is making money off of this site. And since Stefan no longer uses the Styledright name I don't see a problem there. __________________ 1984 1/2 Mustang GT350 #842, Faster than you...nuff said Anna Fan Club President/Dictator Someday, in the event that mankind actually figures out what it is that this world actually revoles around, thousands of people are going to be shocked and perplexed that it was not them. Sometimes this includes me. "If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever." - George Orwell Welcome to the new Amerika

04-02-2007, 12:48 PM	#12
ChrisCantSkate Thought Police Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: orlando florida Age: 41 Posts: 9,662	im only about 95% sure, but i think anything with "honda" in it is in violation of the 04 suite, and it a copyright and or trademark infringment. its like having microsoft.org, and have something remotly related to software, but just talk about it. it misrepresents the company as a 3rd party would or could assume that it has something to do with the real company. the uninformed could then come to the assumption that anything on the site in question is backed by the host company, which it is not, which could bring about unwanted and unjust lawsuites on the real company, and in turn, the site not affiliated with said company, if any information found on the site has not had the research behind it that the host company would want to have done before recommending their consumers to try anything to their product. you can slice it a number of ways, anything from the how-to section not being 100% at hondas standard, to recommending aftermarket parts which honda would not stand behind, then if anything on your car goes wrong, and you feed the line "well on some honda.* site it said it was ok" now they have to take legal actions to shift blame from them to the site owner. but since they own the name honda, they have legal rights to it, so by saying no one can use their name without permission, they help make themselves more secure when it comes to liability and false advertising with their name. sorry for the long winded legal type responce, my law classes are doing it to me. __________________ Black Vtec Prelude-h22a power'd Many dreams come true, and some have silver linings. I live for my dreams and a pocket full of gold.

04-02-2007, 04:06 PM	#13
GT40FIED Best...mod...ever Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: At the end of the longest line Age: 43 Posts: 7,451	While that does make sense, what about the bigger sites that have continued to use the Honda name? I mean if anyone is going to say "I went to a Honda website and they said to do this", you'd think it'd be more inline with a site like Honda-Tech. __________________ 1984 1/2 Mustang GT350 #842, Faster than you...nuff said Anna Fan Club President/Dictator Someday, in the event that mankind actually figures out what it is that this world actually revoles around, thousands of people are going to be shocked and perplexed that it was not them. Sometimes this includes me. "If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever." - George Orwell Welcome to the new Amerika

04-02-2007, 05:00 PM	#14
ChrisCantSkate Thought Police Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: orlando florida Age: 41 Posts: 9,662	honestly, i dont know why they didnt change, i know a buch did, a few didnt. could be legal battles behind the scenes, grandfathered in or whatnot, but like i said, im not 100% but i think its next to impossible to get a honda.* name now and not have them send you a little notice __________________ Black Vtec Prelude-h22a power'd Many dreams come true, and some have silver linings. I live for my dreams and a pocket full of gold.

04-02-2007, 05:22 PM	#15
blind34_1 Registered User Join Date: May 2002 Location: IL Age: 41 Posts: 1,813	ahh i forgot to check to see who now owns the hondastyle.com name. its Honda themselves. those bastards. http://www.networksolutions.com/whoi...hondastyle.com

04-05-2007, 07:55 AM	#17
2000Pimpinex Super Moderator Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Kentucky Age: 44 Posts: 1,427	I vote for the old name back. __________________ 2008 Mustang GT 1998 Hatchback SOLD 1992 Hatchback w/ JDM H22A SOLD 1985 Ford Bronco XLT 5.8 351W w/ 33X12.5X15

04-05-2007, 02:03 PM	#18
Racing Rice Project Combat Honda Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Highland,OH Age: 46 Posts: 7,985	How about Fuckhonda.com then. __________________ Racing Rice

04-05-2007, 06:08 PM	#19
IALuder Registered User Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Des Moines IA Age: 39 Posts: 7,908	hmmmm interesting. i think it might work. we might have to actually think of a new name. __________________ 93 Si H23vtec......soon to be 12lbs 95 Civic EX....automatic DD if you cant dazzle them with your brillance, baffle them with your bullshit.

04-13-2007, 11:11 AM	#20
KwikR6 Mind Blowing Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Cloud 69 Age: 45 Posts: 8,871	ok i guess it's time to think of a new name for the site. Becuase if Honda actually owns www.hondastyle.com then that's out. so time to start brainstorming. __________________ I JDM. I My Honda The epitome of stupidity is expressed so fluidly with the shity lyric theory you try to spit at me. I CAN'T WAIT FOR SUMMER!!!

04-13-2007, 11:16 AM	#21
KwikR6 Mind Blowing Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Cloud 69 Age: 45 Posts: 8,871	ok here is the thread for new names http://www.hstuners.com/forums/showt...575#post298575 __________________ I JDM. I My Honda The epitome of stupidity is expressed so fluidly with the shity lyric theory you try to spit at me. I CAN'T WAIT FOR SUMMER!!!

04-15-2007, 10:35 AM	#22
CD5Passion Registered User Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Santa Barbara, California Age: 39 Posts: 5,446	superhonda.com is still around, and thats a huge frickin site. __________________

04-18-2007, 04:03 PM	#23
KwikR6 Mind Blowing Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Cloud 69 Age: 45 Posts: 8,871	i don't know....i can't explain it i'm not the owner of the board..nor am i honda... __________________ I JDM. I My Honda The epitome of stupidity is expressed so fluidly with the shity lyric theory you try to spit at me. I CAN'T WAIT FOR SUMMER!!!

04-18-2007, 05:37 PM	#24
GT40FIED Best...mod...ever Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: At the end of the longest line Age: 43 Posts: 7,451	I say we offer a human sacrifice to Kali. Any takers? __________________ 1984 1/2 Mustang GT350 #842, Faster than you...nuff said Anna Fan Club President/Dictator Someday, in the event that mankind actually figures out what it is that this world actually revoles around, thousands of people are going to be shocked and perplexed that it was not them. Sometimes this includes me. "If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever." - George Orwell Welcome to the new Amerika

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