About a week ago, my sister received the following email:
Domain Sale Notice:
<your-domain-name>.com is coming available for sale in a few days.
Since you own the domain <your-domain-name>.net, we thought you’d be interested in <your-domain-name>.com
If you do have interest in acquiring <your-domain-name>.com, please fill up priority notice form availble [sic] at our website and we will contact [...]

I have to admit that despite all the doom and gloom of the current worldwide economy I have found a few pluses that I have enjoyed. First, over the last couple months I have noticed I can go to any restaurant (as well as many other businesses), even with a large group, and have almost no wait. I get seated almost immediately and the servers seem to care more about giving good service. In fact, good service seems to be more common everywhere. Somehow, in the height of the “good” economy people just didn’t seem as friendly or gracious as they do now…

With all of the Registered Trademarks out there it is easy to take for granted how much effort and time go into getting the trademark approved. ThoughtLab applied for our trademark both on our name and logo somewhere around 3 or 4 years ago and we just recently were granted the right to use the ® symbol instead of ™…