{"id":547883,"date":"2006-02-01T07:52:44","date_gmt":"2006-02-01T07:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/547883-media24-website-owner-fight-over-24.html"},"modified":"2006-02-01T07:52:44","modified_gmt":"2006-02-01T07:52:44","slug":"media24-website-owner-fight-over-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/547883-media24-website-owner-fight-over-24.html","title":{"rendered":"Media24, website owner fight over &#8217;24&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">But the websites&#8217; owner, Christopher Riley, said Media24 were bullies and that he was prepared to contest the right to use the number. He was issued with the letter in November last year. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Media24 Digital CEO Russell Hanly has said the group had no communication with Riley since then. &quot;These websites cause confusion with Media24 brands,&quot; said Hanly. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The Media24 brands include Property24.com. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Riley said the word &quot;24&quot; did not belong to Media24. Although the dispute was still in the early stages, he said, he was prepared to go to court. &quot;Media24 submitted a trademark application for ownership of the word &#8217;24&#8217; but withdrew the application after www.Nobody-owns24.com was formed,&quot; he said. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Commenting on the use of 24 on his property website, Riley said he had data on rental opportunities available 24 hours a day, and the same applied to his bond website. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">www.RENTALS24.co.za was formed in 2004, while www.BONDS24.co.za was launched late last year. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><i>INet-Bridge<\/i> ||\u00a0 <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=36720\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font size=\"2\">Discuss this article<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listed media group Naspers&#8217; subsidiary Media24, which holds the group&#8217;s print and internet titles, has sent a letter to www.RENTALS24.co.za and sister company www.BONDS24.co.za, insisting that the websites stop using 24 in their company names.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}