Diggdot.us was recently given a cease and desist letter from Digg’s lawyers for using their name in the Diggdot.us domain name, so they have changed their name to Doggdot.us and while they still pull in stories from Digg, the i has become a *. This is probably one of the biggest shifts to occur thanks to the whole “its our trademark” thing that Digg has started.

We get a cease & desist letter from d*gg’s lawyers. We’re not the only ones. A few other d*gg community sites (diggcard.com, digggames.com, digg2phone.com) have received the same letter and have shut down. It sucks seeing those other sites shut down. There are probably a few hundred more cease & desist letters in transit to other d*gg community sites right now.

Back when digggames shut down, Kevin Rose posted :

We don’t want to shut anyone down (not even the clone sites), all we ask is that you avoid using the name ‘digg’ in your website names/domains. We’re looking to see if we have any other options.

I tried contacting him (I couldn’t find his address and tried going through d*gg’s feedback address) to see how he’s doing on those other options. No luck; I received no response from him or d*gg.

I wonder if this is effecting how people perceive Digg? Let me know.

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