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Re:A Conference Stole My Identity by jccc on Thursday July 24, 2014 @12:41PM (#8080610)
Do you believe the marketing efforts that went into naming the Future Stack conference chose that name accidentally unaware of this person's domain and other online presence? If not, then I'm not sure collision is the correct word to use here.
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Re:A Conference Stole My Identity by TheMagicHorsey on Thursday July 24, 2014 @03:09PM (#8081530)
No. I'm sure they were aware of it.

I just don't think people have to abandon a cool name just because someone somewhere registered a domain or has a twitter handle with the same name.

Ideally you make up a new word for your new enterprise. But it ends up being harder than you think if you are trying to name something with an identifier that means something in a domain. Anyone that has to name a new product or company can attest to this.

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