aaa-credit.info ????

[steitieh]

Hey Guys,

I received an email today regarding a domain I own called aaa-credit.info

I am pasting the letter here:
Dear Sir or Madam:

As you may know, the American Automobile Association, or AAA, is a nearly 104-year-old association that provides its more than 49,000,000 members with a wide variety of automobile, travel, legal, financial, insurance, and other products and services.

In order to identify and distinguish its own products and services from those of others, the American Automobile Association employs numerous marks and logo designs, which it has registered as federal trademarks for the exclusive use of itself and its member clubs. These registered marks include, among others, the "AAA" mark and the AAA oval logo design.

Unauthorized businesses that use the American Automobile Association's designations, or confusingly similar designations, in conjunction with the sale of their own products and services may mislead consumers who are likely to confuse those products and services with those offered or approved by the American Automobile Association. Such unauthorized use of the American Automobile Association’s marks constitutes trademark infringement, trademark dilution, and unfair competition, and is unlawful under the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1051 et seq, and various state laws.

We therefore ask that you immediately cease and desist from any and all infringing use of the “AAA” trademarks contained on the site aaa-credit.info, and of designations confusingly similar to those marks. We request that you immediately:

1. Discontinue use of the American Automobile Association's trademarks, and of any other name, mark, or logo confusingly similar to them;

2. Destroy all materials displaying the American Automobile Association’s trademarks, and any other name, mark, or logo confusingly similar to them, including signs, advertisements, forms, and stationery;

3. Agree permanently to cease all use of the American Automobile Association’s trademarks, and any other name, mark, or logo confusingly similar to them; and

4. Provide written confirmation of your discontinuance and destruction of these materials.

The American Automobile Association takes seriously its responsibility to protect its trademarks and to prevent the public from being misled by unauthorized use. If we have not heard from you by we will assume that you will not voluntarily discontinue use of our trademarks, and we will pursue our legal options.

Very truly yours,





Any Idea?

Thanks,
Rami

 

[DNP]

Also please suggest them to contact these two for example:

http://www.aaanet.org/
http://www.aaa.ab.ca/

and another few hundreds companies and organizations worldwide that have AAA acronym in their names.

> under the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1051 et seq, and various state laws.
Scary!


We request that you immediately:
1. Discontinue use of the American Automobile Association's trademarks, and of any other name, mark, or logo confusingly similar to them;
Did you tell them that you ment Amrican Aoutomobile Association when registered the name or they just assumed so???

Wiki statment:
Small or local companies often take the name "AAA" so they are listed first in phone directory listings
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAA

Just reply them that you never been in America :lol:

 

[CLB]

Maybe you can sell the domain to AAA.

 

[Sarcle]

First off are you making money on this domain? Is it worth it to fight if they did bring a WIPO on you?

Second you aren't using their logo and there aren't any ads of theirs on that site. Hardly confusing, hardly similar to their site. This domain means nothing to them. They are just flexing their corporate muscles with lawyers that have nothing better to do than search the whois for AAA domains.

As mentioned there are hundreds of live trademarks on AAA. Over 300! This is just a big company using scare tactics to push the little guy in a corner. Or what we would call in the industry "reverse hijacking"

But I am not a lawyer and take what I say with a grain of salt.

 

[Deleted member 70408]

Delete the name... not even worth the $.99 reg fee anyway