Re: Weird problem

This would imply there's two of you with the same domain name!   How can 
this be?

In any case, don't let the fact they're bigger than you put you off.  If you 
had the name first and can prove it, then you have a  number of choices ....
(1) be nice and stand aside and let them ride roughshod over you (not my 
recommended choice, but it's an option nevertheless)
(2) Get your lawyer to send them a cease-and-desist letter, with a copy to 
the domain name registration authority, demanding they rescind the 
registration
(3)  (and this is my favoured remedy) after doing the first half of option 
2, and having the company worried that you're going to undo all their plans 
and having established that they're the transgressors here, agree to 
relinquish your rights to the name in return for a sum of money that would 
make Bill Gates swoon, then head for Rio and lie on the beach for the rest 
of your days along with the guys who developed ICQ.

Cheers,
Mike Kear
AFP Web Development
Windsor, NSW, Australia

>
>Hi everyone,
>Yesterday and today I received 2 mails for someone else's web site. I 
>didn't
>think anything of it yesterday but today on receiving another I went to the
>site and looked. Anyway they have a similar name as mine and are using the
>same e-mail address as myself. I have written them today to ask them to
>change it but....they are a large company and what rights do I have if they
>refuse? I registered my domain in 1997 and have been using this e-mail
>address ever since. I sent them an e-mail at their other address posted and
>it came back to me.
>I have been on this list for a bit but felt that I should not use my e-mail
>address sales(at)thetackbox.com in case they are getting my mail so I
>resubscribed with this address. Any suggestions?
>Judy
>
>

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