How did javaeye become iteye?

Webmaster’s Home (chinaz.com) News on April 1: Today, JavaEye.com, a well-known domestic Java programming website, was forced to change its website name and domain name and abandon the JavaEye brand that had been in operation for 7 years. At present, the website has been officially renamed as ItEye Technology Website, and the website domain name has been redirected from javaeye.com to iteye.com.

The JavaEye website issued an announcement saying that because Oracle, through its authorized law firm, had put forward unacceptably harsh conditions for the JavaEye website, after long-term and hard-working negotiations were ineffective, the Oracle-authorized law firm took a tough approach. Their posture required us to obey and threatened to deactivate the domain name of javaeye.com. Therefore, we were forced to abandon the JavaEye domain name and JavaEye brand that had been in operation for 7 years and changed its name to ItEye.

The following is the official description of the incident:

Starting from November 26, 2010:

On November 26, we received the Oracle authorization The lawyer's letter from Liande Law Firm (please see the attachment for the lawyer's letter) claims: We have used the domain name javaeye.com without authorization from Oracle, and are suspected of misleading the JAVA trademark. We are required to do the following:

Oracle wrote:

1. Do not use the "JavaEye" logo on the homepage of the javaeye.com website and use another name, such as "EyeonJava";

2. A prominent statement was added to the javaeye.com website to indicate that the website has no connection with Oracle America, Inc.

Department, such as: "[Eye on Java]—An Unofficial Community on JAVA", or "[Eye on Java]—An Independent Community on JAVA" ”;

The weird thing about these two conditions is:

1. For a JavaEye brand that has been in operation for 7 years, the words JavaEye cannot appear on the website, which makes our users What do our company’s customers think, and why am I embarrassed? And the particularly weird thing is: there is no essential difference between the two labels javaeye and eyeonjava. If javaeye is suspected of misleading, then why is eyeonjava not suspected of misleading? If I change it to eyeonjava according to your request today, and you sue me tomorrow for misleading eyeonjava, do I still have to change it every day?

2. As we all know, JavaEye is not a pure Java community now, but a comprehensive technology website. Let us hang a slogan "Unofficial Community About Java" on the homepage to make our website very popular. Why are Java programmers so embarrassed? Isn't it clear that all programmers who don't do Java are forced to leave?

In short, we feel that Oracle's requirements are very unreasonable and extremely harmful to the development of the JavaEye website. We cannot accept such conditions at all. To this end, we have launched a long period of tug-of-war and negotiation. After many back and forth, we finally clearly rejected the conditions proposed by Oracle. We believe:

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JAVA (TM) is a registered trademark, but java is a universal English The word we use is java, not JAVA (TM), so it should not constitute infringement. The use of our javaeye.com domain name will not cause unnecessary misunderstandings to the public. In particular, there is no infringement on our website. There is no infringement by using any signs or icons related to Oracle or SUN's JAVA(TM) trademarks.

Oracle gave an ultimatum on March 29, 2011:

Oracle wrote:

The domain name you registered and used "javaeye. "com" completely contains the "JAVA" registered trademark of Oracle America Inc., which is similar in composition, and the website contains commercial advertisements, which meets the legal requirements for domain name disputes and computer network domain name infringement. Therefore, from a legal perspective, Oracle USA, Inc. may require you to stop using the domain name, whether through a domain name dispute or court action.

For this reason, we have to consider changing the website domain name and logo. In fact, ItEye is a domain name we obtained a long time ago. However, considering that JavaEye has been operating as a community for 7 years and has high popularity and brand loyalty, changing the domain name will cause interruption of brand continuity and affect the website SEO. It will also have a huge impact, and it will also cause a lot of inconvenience to website users, especially blog users. Therefore, we do not tend to change domain names and brands easily.

But as we all know, Oracle has always been the sworn enemy of the open source community. Wherever the acquisition goes, the open source community is barren: after Oracle acquired BEA, it shut down the dev2dev community that BEA had operated for many years; after Oracle acquired SUN, it continued to Many open source projects and communities of SUN were closed, and the Netbeans project was also on its deathbed; Oracle and the Apache Foundation, the largest open source organization, also had many conflicts, and the Apache Foundation almost announced its withdrawal from the JCP organization; especially companies related to JAVA, Oracle even killed them They killed everyone, even Google. They used the law as a big stick to attack Google. In the end, even James Gosling, the father of JAVA, left Oracle and joined Google. Therefore, who can guarantee that they will not continue to use the JAVA trademark to cause unprovoked trouble and force the JavaEye website into a dead end?

So, we had to make up our mind to change the domain name, reopen the business again, endure the temporary pain, and completely solve the legal threat of domain name infringement. We know that after changing the domain name, the SEO ranking of ItEye's new website will start from scratch, and some website users will also be lost. This will be a heavy blow to the website, but we have to make this decision in exchange for the website right to survival. We believe that after changing the ItEye domain name, through the joint efforts of our team, and through the new ItEye website, from product innovation, from code rewriting, from content operation and construction, our The new ItEye website will quickly get out of the trough and surpass the original JavaEye website. April Fool's Day is not a bad holiday for us, but a memorable beginning. This dramatic April Fool's Day will witness ItEye's transformation from zero to brilliant.

Finally, we also use our own tragic experience to kindly remind those websites that may have the same experience as us to avoid using the trademarks of any companies that Oracle may acquire in the future to avoid being subject to Oracle legal action in the future. Weapon attack.

Related introduction:

JavaEye is an in-depth communication community for software developers. JavaEye was founded on September 9, 2003 and was acquired by CSDN last year. JavaEye has been committed to providing a good and in-depth communication community for Chinese software developers. JavaEye is a technology forum that started by discussing Java technology and Hibernate technology. It has now become a comprehensive website covering the entire software development field. In 2005, it was selected as one of the top ten technology websites in China and has been well received by software developers.