IKEA waits 8 years, then shuts down IKEAhackers site with trademark claim
Jules Yap (a pseudonym) created the IKEAHackers website in 2006 for the purpose of gathering together all the cool "hacks" of IKEA furniture she had seen around the Internet. The ideas range from simply adding decorations to make a piece look unique to major revamps that require "power tools and lots of ingenuity."
Yesterday, Yap told her following that she had "a bit of bad news"—IKEA's trademark lawyers sent her a "cease and desist" letter that was causing her to give up the domain name.
"I am crushed," wrote Yap, who will move to a new as-yet-unnamed domain in the near future. Yap negotiated with IKEA, but it would only let her keep the site if it was "non-commercial" and she took down all advertising.
