Smelly-Cash
Junior Member
- Feb 28, 2008
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Here is what I would reply with
To whom it may concern,
This domain name is for sale on ebay, The starting bid is $100,000. Please feel free to make an offer.
To whom it may concern,
This domain name is for sale on ebay, The starting bid is $100,000. Please feel free to make an offer.
Vivica
Regular Member
- Dec 15, 2007
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Smelly-Cash
Junior Member
- Feb 28, 2008
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You're not just gonna give it up, You don't even live in the us
MaestroDelWeb
Power Member
- Nov 5, 2007
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And their reply will be, "See you in court." Then you'll be stuck with legal fees and a nice big lawsuit for registering their trademarked term in bad faith.
Vivica
Regular Member
- Dec 15, 2007
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Are you serious? LOL Not only will they get the registrar to take the domain away from him, but he'll be sued.
ximscreamingx
Power Member
- Jan 16, 2008
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I don't know.. I own eb*aypul*seco*de(dot)c0m and got one from ebay, not too long ago. I'm thinking about selling it to an offshore corporation and hosting a site on it just because they pissed me off.
It's silly copywrite shit like that, that really makes me mad.
It's silly copywrite shit like that, that really makes me mad.
twinkletoes
Junior Member
- Jun 4, 2008
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Yours is "report" not reports. Tell them you will only have one report on your site. There will be no way anyone would be confused.
Or tell them your site is a report on their site/organization.
Or tell them your site is a report on their site/organization.
Step 1) Put a disclaimer on ever page of your site in big red bold letters stating you have no affiliation to the consumerreports site.
step
2) Make the the site an info site about how bad consumer reports are or something like that. Just be sure your site is nothing like the info they have.
As long as it's different enough they don't have a legal leg to stand on. I actually took on google over this when 2 of mysites used the word adsense in the domain name. The key is the disclaimer and make sure it's easy for websurfers to tell that you are not connected to that site.
step
2) Make the the site an info site about how bad consumer reports are or something like that. Just be sure your site is nothing like the info they have.
As long as it's different enough they don't have a legal leg to stand on. I actually took on google over this when 2 of mysites used the word adsense in the domain name. The key is the disclaimer and make sure it's easy for websurfers to tell that you are not connected to that site.
mrkenginer
Newbie
- Jul 17, 2008
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I would find out if they registered their trademark in YOUR country first. It might be likely that an organization like consumer reports would register their trade mark in many countries, (GB or Canada for example) but probably not all of them. If they're not registered in your country, transfer the domain to a registrar and host in your country.
i think that i'm not going to reply its stupid mail but at the same time i'm not going to develop anything there, why bother. I have another very similar domain which has been running for 1 month o more without any trouble, maybe i should use another domain just to avoid future trouble.
