Do you have a US Trademark on the name for the services you are rendering?
Do you have proof of having done business in a couple of states?
Have you registered your business name in the state/town the domain owner is from?
Do you have the other variants of the name? (.org, .net)
Once you have done all that, have you offered a "reasonable" fee for the domain?
All of these may help you if/when it comes to a fight.
But remember, IANAL. At all.
It might be easier to move on than fight.
Jerry Johnson
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/04/04 12:33PM >>>
I hear ya. The domain in question is actually nothing special other than
it is the same name as a registered business name and the "person" who
owns the business is wasting a lot of time fielding phone calls and
inquiries as to why the matching domain name is not the website thus
potentially hurting business.
Oh well... "they" are looking into other names :-)
Michael T. Tangorre
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From: Jeffry Houser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 12:24 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re: Domain Squatters
I spoke to some lawyers late last year about domains and other
stuff. By
pure coincidence one of them is somehow associated w/ ICANN (I
found them
via my local chamber of commerce). He had told me the only
success he knew
of in a case like this was "sex.com". It wasn't exactly a
domain squatting
case, though. They were able to prove that forgery was used to
change the
registrant.
If your sole purpose is to get the domain back, you're
probably out of
luck. You could offer to buy it out-right.
However, if the domain is being used to somehow harm or
slander you /
your company, it's time to talk to a lawyer.
I once put in an offer for "songs.com". However, they wanted
$150,00 for
it, which was about $149,990 more than I wanted to pay for it.
At 01:04 PM 10/4/2004, you wrote:
>Subject: Domain Squatters
>From: "Tangorre, Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 11:49:02 -0400
>Thread:
>http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm/method=messages&threadi
d=14328&forumid=5#130017
>
>Anyone successfully sue a domain squatter that held the domain
name that
>was also your company's DBA name?
>
>
>Michael T. Tangorre
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