WWF Question

[WarriorWarrior]

As we all know, 4 years ago, WWF ceased to be and became WWE. I remember reading that they wanted the domain wwf.com.

Ok, so here is my point. go to WWF.com and look at it.

4 years later and the panda people STILL arent using it. What was the whole point of the lawsuit if they werent going to use the name?

[HRH The KING]

I've always thought they were expecting WWE to pay them off to avoid the pressures and expenses of lawsuits.

But when WWE changed their name, the chances of that ended.

[Z-A Sandbaggin' Son of a b!%@h]

i keep a little bit of hope that one day WWF will return

[krazysane]

i wouldnt mind if they went back to wwf, but i do like the wwe name.. i still write wwf on my vhs an dvd burns

[WarriorWarrior]

Vince has done a lot with the blurring on DVDs and get the f out campaign. I really cant see him going back to WWF.

[wwerules60]

I dont care if they change the company back to WWF. But I hope they can come to terms so they dont have to blur every little logo or bleep out anyone saying WWF

[imnotbooked]

The name change came out of necessity when WWE was booking shows in the UK. All they needed to do was write out World Wrestling Federation and not use the WWF logo on the ads and on merch. They didn't follow court orders, which I don't really blame them for because it would be a rediculous expense to cover up all WWF Scratch logos, World Wildlife Foundation filed an injuction, and WWF changed their name soon after.

It basically boiled down to WWF really wanting to change their name. They could of fought the case, or came to some agreement with the animal cooks, but they decided to make it easier and go with the new name.

My educated guess? I think that the name change was in the works, and this just helped spur it on quicker.

[Copeland]

therealzman said:

i keep a little bit of hope that one day WWF will return

I think we all do

[Aaron E. Dangerously]

The WWF (panda) wanted the domain because people kept going there for them and getting a wrestling site, when their actual site is WWF.org. I think. I don't care/know.

[mohamo]

Yeah, since WWF (Panda) is non-profit, they would not use a .com domain but a .org. But I do think that someday they will figure a way to not blur out the old logo on tapes, that's such a big part of their history that's fairly tainted now.

[Bhester]

I had no trouble getting used to saying WWE.

[Garee]

I got in a big argument with one of the WWF people on the streets about this, they were asking everyone for donations, and I told them no because of the lawsuit, and the lady started yelling at me about how they had it first, and they deserve it, and yadda yadda yadda, I just thought it was funny but didn't expect her to get so passionate about it

[HRH The KING]

Maybe it was a mistake for the WWE to sign that 1994 agreement with the wildlife group in the first instance.

By doing that, it set them up for a judgement against them, because they would be bound to that agreement.

Had they simply taken it to court with the argument that the two organisations are so distinct and unrelated in relation to each other, than no reasonable person could be confused between them, they may have had a better position to work from legally.