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Old Jul 8th, 2005, 1:04 PM   #11
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I think you'll discover, if you investigate for yourself, that you have to go through arbitration and reject the results before a court will accept the case. That's why I used the adjective, "normally".
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Old Jul 9th, 2005, 7:21 AM   #12
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This was on the news today:
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SAN FRANCISCO(AP) An Internet arbitrator has awarded Google Inc. the rights to several Web site addresses that relied on typographical errors to exploit the online search engine's popularity so computer viruses and other malicious software could be unleashed on unsuspecting visitors.

The National Arbitration Forum, a legal alternate to litigating in court, sided with a Google complaint alleging that Sergey Gridasov of St. Petersburg, Russia, had engaged in "typosquatting" by operating Web sites named googkle.com, ghoogle.com and gooigle.com.
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Old Jul 9th, 2005, 7:34 AM   #13
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send them an email back saying what you said in the first post and ask for a quote of the law / guideline they are refering to which states they should be entitled to ownership of the domain name and ask for it in full, save the emails and best of luck, don't give in unless your site is 1- illegal 2- related to thiers

also if they are worried about typosquatting put a note on the home page that if you were looking for ******* (there site address) that you have it wrong and basically they can't do much how can they say your trying to do that whilst your saying your not it.
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Old Jul 9th, 2005, 12:23 PM   #14
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That's a good idea. By the way, what is your site, and what's the site of the company that's trying to get you to give it up?
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