Linda Ikeji Sets in New website address,now @ lindaikejionline.com
In an interesting turn of events yesterday,
visitors to Linda Ikeji's blog (www.lindaikeji.blogspot.com)
suddenly discovered that their beloved entertainment/gossip hotspot was
offline. It turned out that Google had taken the complaints of plagiarism quite
serious and had deleted Linda Ikeji's blog.However, the Diva blogger she is back Again! You can now access Linda Ikeji's content via http://lindaikejionline.com
According to a twitter handle owned by @MrAyeDee, celebrity
blogger Linda Ikeji was accused of copyright infringement of his works. He
reported these infringing activities to Google and what resulted was a take
down of his articles/works on her site and also a take down of articles/works
of other persons who she also allegedly had been infringing on their works. He
also claimed with the rate and way things looked, Linda Ikeji’s site could be
shut
down within a week.
Linda Ikeji has a blog hosted on Blogger and averages an
estimated $900,000.00 in income each year. I get the fact that this guy
was concerned about Ikeji’s activities and got Google to do something about it.
What I don’t get is his very strong response and continued massive tweets
talking about the same issue in an almost vendetta like style towards her. This
got me curious to know who he was and what could be a motive behind all of
these.
I began by
looking at his twitter page and narrowed in on his website www. 15Past8.com.
The description of
the services he offered through his media group raised my curiosity. He says
his media group owns “hundreds of websites.” He also claimed some of the
infringing content on Linda Ikeji came from his site. Well one of his hundreds
of websites is 9jalife.com because it has the 15Past8.com media group stamped
on it. I did a basic search on 9jalife.com to see who owns it. The name
‘Emmanuel Efremov’ came up as the registered owner of 9jalife.com. 9jalife.com
isclear it
is owned by 15Past8.com media group, @MrAyeDee’s company.
For my article on
Linda Ikeji, many have been saying they are surprised she does not own her own
domain. Purely out of curiosity, I looked up Lindaikeji.com and noted it is
owned by someone else, a case of cybersquatting. I also look up Linda Ikeji.net
and see the same ‘Emmanuel Efremov’ come up. Now I am very curious. How is it
that Emmanuel Efremov owner of 9jalife.com, a subsidiary of 15Past8.com, also
owns LindaIkeji.net? Am I missing something?
Needless to say,
I google the name ‘Emmanuel Efremov’ and lo and behold, there is a case by Volkswagen against
an Emmanuel Efremov for cybersquatting.
Looking at the description of
15Past8.com, the registered domain owner of 9jalife.com and Lindaikeji.net and
the case by Volkswagen against Emmanuel Efremov, I am left feeling that the
credibility of @MrAyeDee is shot and very weak at best. It also makes me wonder
about any prior existing relationship between him and Linda Ikeji as to the
issue of domain ownership i.e. cybersquatting. It is not uncommon for cybersquatters
to ask you the legitimate owner of a trademark to pay them to ownyour
own website .
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