Okay, here's an experiment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XWF

Google 'XWF.'

Shane's done wonders with this!

We're like #2 that pops up... but like with a lot of search terms, because of traffic and google's way of indexing, a wikipedia entry will blast you in the nuts as #1.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XWF

So I have a way around this - go straight to the source.

I actually did a very brief wiki-edit, changing Xcitement Wrestling Federation (a long dead REAL fed) from it's memorium to Jimmy Hart and Hulk Hogan, to a wiki entry for US, here in XWF(Xtreme Wrestling Federation.) Did it up pretty nice... yada, yada.

Well, get this!

Within 3 MINUTES FLAT, of making the edit... I got a private message from 'Jvushnir' saying he deleted my 'revision' because it was not constructive... but I did make a plea, asking him if page edits with the same acronyms can ever be accepted and instituted because of the redendency of them and in the ways they blo--- in any case... that's still going on.

And obviously, if Shane has got an issue with any of this, he call my efforts and anyone else's dead with just a word and that's all we'd need to stop.

But, if you feel like XWF should be #1 on Google, I ask you to 'revise' Xcitement Wrestling Federation and/or create your own wiki entry and maybe we can all compare notes?

Just bored today...

Now, also...

http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4004:xrkkz6.2.9

Did a bit of research.

The trademark 'XWF' is currently owned by a dead company.

So yes, it's trademark but it really don't friggin matter anymore, lol.

Now, according to other research I've done as well, in 2013, at some point, because it's owned by someone whom I assume won't pay even nominal fees on the trademark, the trademark should actually come back available.

Which I would advise Shane to do - to watch that and trademark the acronym 'XWF' as soon as he ca to help protect the site legally in the long run.

Hell, I bet he could copyright and trademark xwf99.com, if he was so inclined.

I'm really bored.

I'm sure Shane has already looked into all of this.

Question: How long does a trademark registration last?
Answer: Unlike copyrights or patents, trademark registration rights can last indefinitely if the owner continues to use the mark to identify goods or services.
The term of a federal trademark registration is ten years, with ten-year renewal terms. However, between the fifth and sixth year after the date of initial trademark registration, you must file an "affidavit of use" and pay an additional fee to keep the registration alive. You must also file an affidavit and pay a fee within a year before the end of every ten-year period.

If an affidavit is missed, the registration is canceled. However, you may file the affidavit within a grace period of six months after the end of the sixth or tenth year, with payment of an additional fee.

Also, as far as I've researched... I believe, so long as we don't use picbases of characters from Xcitement Fed, we might be in the clear to trademark XWF, as an acronymn, indicating that it's for a FICTIONAL 'E-FED' and not a live-action, ACTUALIZED wrestling federation - it'd be something else to look into.