DISQUS

I think that they have a couple of books for him in Borders in CC. I think you should check him out! :D

Mohammed, it is in fact RO 20,000, as mentioned in the framework, the RO 50,000 was a typo! Fixed that. Thanks!

Yuseff, it is legal to register a mark used in a certain field even if it is registered in another field at the same time if done in good faith. So if Khalid wanted to register Cisco as a trademark he should be allowed to do so, so why shouldn't he have the right to register the domain name? He already has the trademark. And whether he actually does or not, a trademark, as shown from the articles I cited, does not give you a monopoly over the term as a business name, let alone a domain name.


For example: Apple is registered as a trademark in the UK obviously, but it does not own the domain name for http://www.apple.co.uk/ !



If you do not use Pepsi's logo or anything that looks like it, people should not be confused when they visit your website. The fact that some MIGHT assume that your are related EVEN AFTER THEY CHECK YOUR WEBSITE should not stop you from having the domain name of a business you would like to start in good faith.



I think that trademarks make more sense once you realise that they are (1) unlike copyright not automatic, (2) only valid in the jurisdiction it was registered in, and

(3) must be continuously renewed to remain valid.



This rule does not make sense in a mature market because more than one business may have the same trademark for different businesses because the law allows it.

Thanks for the advice 3anooda, maybe I will consider that when I come back next year.


Anon, thanks for the advice, I BADLY need to do that!

LIT, even if you use shortcuts in T9, you can add words to the dictionary so that they are recognised when you type them later. The same thing can be done with swype.

Diablo, the technology is gesture based and it will recognize the words even if you are not very accurate.

3anooda, changing bank accounts is really such a mess. I don't think that NBO is THAT much better. Bank Muscat still has the widest network of ATM machines and branches and they are the most technically advanced (online banking, phone banking, etc).

I'm glad this problem is now over. Thanks for your support! :D

Guys, I'm a beginner, let me try doing something random before going topical! :P

I'm not an anonymous blogger and my post got forwarded by email to someone in Bank Muscat.

Thanks for passing by LIT. The best place to buy brushes and paint in Oman are the Alwan store in MQ (Al Noor Plaza - 24603762).

KC, I think that the ePG is the one of the fundamentals for moving forward. The internet penetration cannot be increased without increasing the amount of relevant content to be consumed by the public, and having the ePG will create more content and services relevant to everyone. We should'ave had this ages ago!

Sorry about the labels meteor, I have way too many labels and putting all of them will not be helpful at all. I am going to move my blog to the self-hosted WordPress on my own server, it has categories AND labels, so I hope that will help me make things more organised.


I rarely buy books from Oman (the only place I ever bought some books from is Borders, I usually buy my books from Amazon.co.uk and get them delivered by Al Manahil.

Thanks metero and 3anooda, I'll be going to Southampton University (UK).

Saladin, just like what Rozalin said, this obviously was not a paid review.

Sonu, I'm going do a masters of law degree in IT and commerce.

Anon, it's amusing because this singer is Omani and I don't know any other Omani singer that has a website. (It's hard to believe, I know!)

Omanymous, WE ARE NOT RELATED. LOL :P

LOL. Alright! Maybe I need to stop! :P

Hey Suburban, thanks for passing by. They are running the ad on daily basis in the classifieds, I feel like checking with them on how it went, but I think that this will be too evil! :P

Anon, I made a post about this here.

As hilarious as it sounds, I actually think so.


However, the people behind OLZ do not think so, but you can read the law yourself. I've linked to it in the post.

Omanymous, lets discuss the Omani Cuisine by email. My email can be found on the contact page of this blog.

Anon, of course there are no such books on Amazon. There is a difference between website review books and this thing. This book is a DIRECTORY (like a telephone directory), and it is pointless because it CANNOT contain all the Omani websites (are we counting blogs) and because it is impossible to update. It is a waste of money, time, and paper. I thought that I will share it with the readers of my blog because it is so amusingly ridiculous.

The skin is actually the default skin for wordpress with what I like to call "the Omani Cuisine edit". :P I did make the logo of the website.