Dear Noah
what you can do is advise your friend to do some investigation on the
trademarks and their ownership for this name as well he can ask them to
let them goto the dispute resolvers approved by icann.
if they decide then your friend realy has to give up the domain.
else he can keep it if he can proive his side against what allegations
this company puts ip agains t your friend.
please correct me if i have advised wrong.
best regards,
parag mehta
--- Noah Couture <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey Folks,
>
> A friend of mine who registered a domain name for his own use has
> received
> a threatening letter from a rather large corporation demanding that
> he
> transfer the domain to them. He's wondering what he should do. Any
> and
> all advice will be very much appreciated. Here's the story. My
> friend
> Derek made up a name for himself (i'm not sure what his inspiration
> was): Johnny Hazard. At some point he registered the corresponding
> domain
> name. Well, he just got a letter from Hearst corporation who
> apparently
> think they should own it for some reason. He is not using it for any
> sort
> of commercial enterprise whatsoever. He doesn't want to sell it, he
> doesn't want to do anything with it except personal use. Any advice?
>
> thanks
> noah
>
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