In April 2007 Chris Vizzini, owner of the gaming site "Gaymer.org", sought to trademark the term "gaymer" with respect to online communities and obtained it in March 2008. In 2012, he sent a cease and desist letter to Reddit's /r/gaymers "subreddit" forum, for alleged trademark infringement. Vizzini has been criticized by the reddit and gaymer communities, who cite examples of use from as early as 1991, and a Yahoo Groups online community with that name created in 2000. Vizzini's website was taken out of service in September, 2012; he has claimed that this was due to a denial of service attack. On two occasions Vizzini posted new threads to the /r/gaymers forum explaining his position and apologizing for "hurting his own people", but not for filing the trademark.