There appears to be some confusion over the domain name electricansforums.co.uk, and electricianforum.co.uk. We have been asked a few times by potential buyers of the company what is going on with this domain that’s similar to ours. So I wanted to clear up something so it’s easy to understand to those with similar domain names, like Electrician Forum .co.uk who’s clearly trading on our mark.

But the short answer is Dan Freakley. He owns Electricians Forums, Tilers Forums and UK Plumbers Forums, and UK Tiling Forum. All has done since 2006. Those very specific similar names are the intellectual property of Dan Freakley. The guy owns them all. And nobody should be trading with a name similar, or a domain name similar, to any of these websites or they’re liable to be closed down using the Digital Millenium Copyright Act at least, if not a full law suit for loss of licence fee’s. And loss of earnings due to fallen through sales due to this very issue.

So let’s explain a bit first about how Dan came up with the names, business models, domain names, and cycle of similar names being the trend, and became his intellectual property and it’s proven using many many ways that are more technical than this mere blog posts is intended for.

Dan Freakley used to be a wall and floor tiler. Eventually came to run a tiling training course company based in Staffordshire. Then went onto create Tilers Forums (the first forum out of the similarly branded websites) on 1st April 2006.

Then 21st May 2006 he created Plumbers Forums and Electricians Forums.

Those websites were online and running that day. And have been ever since. There’s not been a single day we haven’t made money out of those websites, names, branding and services we provide for free, on those domains.

Electricians Forums was created in 2006 in a small place in Staffordshire, called Newcastle Under Lyme, by one person. Who created many more of the same name. Electricians Forums is a recognised Trademark in the UK, owned by untold.media which is a Registered Trademark in the UK and has been used since 1999.

Electricians Forums and all of its proprietary belongings are used under licence by Audacious Media in operating the forums and al its related blogs and websites using the said trademarks.

They are not to be used without prior consent. The cost of using the mark for 12 months is £250,000. (VAT not applicable)

Using the mark without paying the fee in advance does not mean that you do not need to pay the fee for use of the mark after the fact. For each and every year you have used the mark. This includes similar domain names that are missing a letter S or two, that are using it without paying or before gaining permission and consent. If you company has many owners, each of the owners that used the mark would be liable to paying the fee.

Advice to those using a mark or domain name similar to ours?

Change your domain name quickly, using Google Search Console to tell Google properly that your domain name has changed. Before Dan decides to use a no-win no-fee solicitor who are notoriously expensive to pay for when they win. And they will win. And the costs will be in the hundreds of thousands and will be sent to each director and share holder. Not just the limited company. We will want the properties and assets.

Electrician Forum is too close. You can’t have Electrician Forum claiming to be unique when it’s a direct rip off of Electricians Forums. Pay up or fuck off to a new unique domain please Welshies.