Skype Wars Episode III : The revenge of the SIP

Note: This is insightful. I guess if you want to register your Name and Mark you need to enforce it. If you let people use your name without getting permission from you and instructions you can lose your claim with the trademark agency.

"Few days ago I attended a conference on Google adsense (by Google) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I asked why I could not startup my a Google adsense campaign with the word of skype in it. The answer is that that is not allowed by Skype and Google due to copyright and trademark protection of the Skype brand."

That is why you see mostly other VoIP brands and other website popping up on many blog where the word VoIP and hence Skype (on many SKype blog are mentioned)… Therefore the more I write about the Skype / VoIP thing the more click will go to the competition. What a joke…

I am not even going to mention the fact that on a website which contains the word Skype in the domain-name you are not allowed to do any commercial activity that Skype does not endorse. Something that was decided by the Commission Junction that manages the Skype affiliation project it seems. This is also why you will not see any phones of Skype being sold on this website and also not the easy Ebay-store plugin. As far as I understand it is simply not allowed… So far the usefulness of the easy Typepad Ebay plugin store… Lot’s of inconsistencies in this whole concept if you ask me. Remember, I am not a Skype affiliate. Not anymore. www.cj.com disabled that… some months ago.

Back to the google adsense story… Yet another way of protectionism, proprietary obfuscationism that leads to nothing but more advertising and visibility for the others… Just look at this blog. I have put some google adsense on it. It would be good for the skype blog and skype store to see something else that SIP / VOIP in the google adsense. Why does Skype / Ebay Corporation not understand that ? Or is it Google with the Google talk product who prefer not too much early global advertiser for their competitor… Talking about net neutrality…

The same goes for the open p2p Skype cloud. I can’t tell you how many I get calls from people that are trying to sell me SIP/Asterisk or other PBX solution… Talking about being cannibalized by others… Maybe it’s the revenge of SIP.

There is one that slipped through the mazes of the net though.. See Image below for the Skyper IM…

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