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Can anyone help - appears to be an all to common problem for domainers.
Just received a 'cease and desist' email from a US based company.
I'm in Manchester.
They claim my domain name infringes their trade mark.
As the domain has always been parked for sale on SEDO I can't see how site visitors would be confused that the parked page was connected with their company. But thats what they claim.
I don't want to say the domain for obvious reasons, but, if my .com domain name was "iSiteHosting" their trademark would be "iSite", and they would own the dot com domain iSite.
I've got 7 days 'to stop using this domain name' before they take action against me under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, the Lanham Act and Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy ("UDRP").
My questions are............
How worried should I be about this?
Would you fight or just let the domain drop? - without the 'i' I'd value the domain at $2,000 max.
Any websites that have advice for domain owners in my position?
Any suggestions or general advice would be appreciated.
Just received a 'cease and desist' email from a US based company.
I'm in Manchester.
They claim my domain name infringes their trade mark.
As the domain has always been parked for sale on SEDO I can't see how site visitors would be confused that the parked page was connected with their company. But thats what they claim.
I don't want to say the domain for obvious reasons, but, if my .com domain name was "iSiteHosting" their trademark would be "iSite", and they would own the dot com domain iSite.
I've got 7 days 'to stop using this domain name' before they take action against me under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, the Lanham Act and Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy ("UDRP").
My questions are............
How worried should I be about this?
Would you fight or just let the domain drop? - without the 'i' I'd value the domain at $2,000 max.
Any websites that have advice for domain owners in my position?
Any suggestions or general advice would be appreciated.