Trademark Domain issue

[Franka]

I received this email a few days ago.
What are my rights please?
These are ligit people and no scam.
I registered this domain 7 months ago an dstill own it.
Reg thru Godaddy.
Thanks
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Im contacting you regarding www......com, this domain was registered last year by one of our oppositions, while going through all the legal processing with them, they cancelled the domain and then it got registered by you.
............... is a trademark name.
Or should we get our lawyers to contact you regarding this?
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[Johnn]

Looks like the letter is written from a 12 years old kid.
I would ignore the email.

 

[Franka]

Looks like the letter is written from a 12 years old kid.
I would ignore the email.

Here is some more ,I replied that I felt his email was a threat. He is from South Africa.
I reg this Domain in dec last year and now they are contacting me.
I have the domain parked with Sedo.com and is for sale.
Regards
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It was no scare, I’m only the web guy and was asked to send the mail and try to sort this out.
I don’t think my client is
Last year we were instructed that our lawyers should sort something like this, so I didn’t try scare you, I was asking you if you want them to rather handle this, and just me, we is only doing the hosting and domains. ........... is a game lodge in the Kruger Park, and they trademarked the name.
Your lawyers are more than welcome to contact us, then we can sort this out professionally.
For now we’ll launch a dispute ICANN, and work on their policy regarding this domain, and keep it as professional as possible. with http://www.icann.org/en/help/dndr/udrp/policy
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Hi Frank,
We are reasonable, and that’s why we tried to do this directly.
We will be launching a dispute regarding this domain. This got triggered when you tried to sell it and post it on my clients Facebook page where all his clients can see it. That’s not professional at all.
There are policies in place to prevent someone from taking your domain name and cell it back again, you can check that with your lawyers and with SEDO, especially if it is a trademark name.
This is not the first domain that we need to retrieve, and as professional as we are, we did our homework regarding domain registrations, and there is laws against things such as cyber-squatting and cyber-piracy. The information for that can be found on the ICANN website.
We are busy drafting the documents stating that you purely registered the domain for celling purposes. This documents, including your last mail will be send to ICANN and SEDO, and then they can advise both of us on what will happen.
If you go onto Sedo’s website, please read the Sedo Policies, Under rules for domain sellers. I will quote it for you: http://www.sedo.com/uk/about-us/policies
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I just spoke to Sedo, and they provided me with following link. https://sedo-int1.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/836/kw/trademark
They state in their policy that it’s the registers duty to check a domain, since they can’t check all the 1000nds of domains listed.
I am a nice guy, and only doing my job and as instructed by my client. So even if we did do work together, you can be sure of one thing, I’m good at what I’m doing. The domain was supposed to be registered till this time this year, since it was owned by an opposition lodge in the same park. They cancel it early without our knowledge.
I removed your post from facebook, but a screen print has been made, the next mail that you will receive will be the one going to Sedo legal.
I’m not going to battle with you, that’s why we pay lawyers and that’s why Sedo make provision for cases like this.
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[Johnn]

Stop talking to them. The more I read the more I want to ignore them.

 

[Dave Zan]

What are my rights please?

What your contract says, namely about registering and/or using domains matching trademarks.

There are arguably legitimate uses, depending on one's situation. If you do have a lawyer who especially handles these things, let him/her deal with it.

 

[grcorp]

Im contacting you regarding www......com, this domain was registered last year by one of our oppositions, while going through all the legal processing with them, they cancelled the domain and then it got registered by you.
............... is a trademark name.
Or should we get our lawyers to contact you regarding this?
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"When I was in the 5th grade, the girl I had a crush on went on to be a lawyer. Hopefully one of your lawyers will be that girl. I've always wanted a chance to speak to her again. So, your having a lawyer speak to me will increase my odds of this happening. So, sure... have your lawyers contact me. I'd really appreciate it!"

 

[Cartoonz]

"Dear Sir,
I'm so please that you are so good at what you are doing. Obviously, you company must value your great skill and intelligence quite highly. Some of the more remarkable of your accomplishments that I find so impressive are as follows:

1. You never actually owned the domain name, your "opposition" did.

2. That "opposition" was just across the park.

3. You've brilliantly deduced that it should be much easier for you, with seemingly less skill/training/intelligence than a Banana Slug, to muscle me out of the domain 1/2 a World away when you could not get enough stones in your sack to "recover" the name from someone just "across the park". Bravo, your parents (cousins?) must be especially proud.

4. Your artistic and masterful use of proper grammar, spelling, and fluency in the English language is something to be marveled. Obviously, you must have attended a fine university in another country to attain such an advanced level... somewhere such as Obongo's Hut College of Engrish up in the nether region of Somalia, perhaps? I'd recognize that fine dialect anywhere.

5. Your astute comprehension of International law and especially, the direct knowledge of how the interwebs function has caused you to understand exactly who the be-all end-all Masters of the Internet Universe are for matters such as this and are prepared to demand relief from that entity has caused me to change my underwear more than once today. Yes, you are right, Sedo is fearsome.

However, please understand that while we certainly hold you in great esteem and reverence, we also have our own plans for the domain - which we don not believe should conflict with that "home school TM" that you carved into the bark of that old tree last month... we do realize how strong a mark like that must be but still feel that our use will be non infringing.

We are building a "super site" of sorts. We plan on hosting Safaris, night hunts, and trophy bagging training for a start. We are starting with a back end to drool over. From there, we shall be showing insanely high definition photos and videos of such activities, complete with enormous tusks and wrinkly trunks as well as an entire section on the various positions available relating to the art of "Monkey Style"

Yes, when we roll out the new creation, we are excited to be the purveyors of the largest extreme Gay-Porn site ever introduced!

I'm sure you must be as thrilled for us after hearing that as we are. Perhaps you might be able to contribute, what is the Monkey Style position for "Dominate and bugger me know, I am not worthy"? Perhaps if you could show us that pose and send a high quality photo, we may consider you as a candidate to be our mascot or something.

Sincerely,
Someone that still has his testicles."