Since 4th March 2010, TELNIC, has published their unapproved advertising on our domains. If you feel affected by the here explained unfair advertising, complain to ICANN and British Advertiser Standards Authority.
- Search Box, leads to telpages.com - was not bought nor ever agreed upon when we have purchased TEL domains. The search is misleading and takes our clients away from our page. We don't need ANY search on our TEL domains.
-
TELNIC shall give option to domain owner to REMOVE COMPLETELY THE SEARCH BOX. And we don't wanna be your beta testers. It is removed as of now, but don't want it in future.
- The link "LEARN MORE" is misleading and was placed on our TEL domains without approval, consent, nor agreement upon purchase of TEL domains from registrar. TELNIC is third party for me in regards to advertising on our TEL domains.
-
We have bought domains with their logo, and we agreed on display of the logo, but not on display of any link leading to third party companies.
- TELNIC LTD is British.
-
British Code of Advertising, Sales Promotion and Direct Marketing, clearly says following
- Denigration and unfair advantage
-
Marketers should not take unfair advantage of the reputation of trade marks, trade names or other distinguishing marks of organisations or of the designation of origin of competing products.
- By placing their links, decided unilaterally by TELNIC, they mess with our search engine ranking, as Google and other search engines value the favoring of third party links,
-
and TELNIC is forcing favoring through Thetabiz.Tel to TELNIC.ORG domain, which is not true.
- We are advertising our business, pay for advertising and
-
TELNIC is using unfair advantage of the reputation of our trade marks, such as THETABIZ™.
- From the Code of Advertising: Unfair marketing communications Marketing communications are unfair if they • are contrary to the requirements of professional diligence and • are likely to materially distort the economic behaviour of consumers in relation to the advertised goods or services. “Professional diligence” is the standard of special skill and care which a trader may reasonably be expected to exercise towards consumers, commensurate with honest market practice and/or the general principle of good faith in the trader’s field of activity. "LEARN MORE" -- and SEARCH BOX are distorting the economic behaviour of our consumers. And: Misleading marketing communications Marketing communications are misleading if they • are likely to deceive consumers and • are likely to cause consumers to take transactional decisions that they would not otherwise have taken. A “transactional decision” is any decision taken by a consumer, whether it is to act or to refrain from acting, concerning whether, how and on what terms to purchase, make payment in whole or in part for, retain or dispose of a product or whether, how and on what terms to exercise a contractual right in relation to a product. Marketing communications can deceive consumers by ambiguity, through presentation or by omitting important information that consumers need to make an informed transactional decision, as well as by including false information. And by placing "SEARCH BOX" and "LEARN MORE" links, unilaterally decided by TELNIC LTD, without our consent, without our permission, TELNIC LTD is making misleading communication, and we ask for BOTH options to be removed permanently from all of our TEL domains. If anyone comes to our company, they come to THETABIZ S.A. and I certainly don't want any clients to "SEARCH" and get wrong, none, or misleading results, ending up on the TELPAGES.COM domain belonging to third party.
- I request removal from our TEL domains, forever, the SEARCH BOX, and "LEARN MORE", and we prohibit placement of any third party links on our TEL domains without our approval, without our consent, without a contract in place, and without implied approval, consent or contract, and without payment subject to such approval, consent or contract.
- Placement of a link on our TEL domain is US $100 per page, for 30 days block, that is current price for the link, and we expect that links "LEARN MORE" and SEARCH boxes are removed from our 150+ domains -- or that option is given that users may decide themselves to show that or not to show, and by DEFAULT not to be shown on our domains. We are not spending time to remove your advertising from our domains. Any such time spent will be counted toward our hourly rate of work and billed to TELNIC LTD.
