sell sell sell BIG MONEYS

Don't write back, don't contact them ... Don't give them any amunitions against you

They sent you a scare letter ... file it.

Now, if they really want the domain, they will have to show their cards, produce a real case ... They are still at bat ....

fucking so call shmuck isn't even licensed to practice law in the united states.. this motherfucker is only licensed to practice law in canada & moscow :1orglaugh

The moment you make an offer to sell you are soliticing. And the likeliness of confusion is miniscule. All in all a frivolous case for them.

How was it registered in bad faith?
0 searches for the term Bloxbuster in both wordtracker and overture
http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/su...ter&country=us

I think they have a very weak case. "delta.com" could be an airline, a company that makes power tools, a fraternity, or a lot of other things. Any of those have a perfect legal right to the name.

Ditto "bloxbuster." I think the "confusingly similar" argument is very weak. "blackbuster.com", "blocksbuster.com", "bockbuster.com" are all registered to domain squatters, and I'd argue that those are considerably more "confusingly similar"... and Blockbuster has obviously already lost on those.

IF you were running a video rental site, or using the domain to point to Blockbuster's competition and get a referral fee from doing so, then they would have an argument, because the domain would have been registered in "bad faith."

But in this case, no reasonable person could infer that Bloxbuster, a TGP site with porn pics, could reasonably be confused with Blockbuster, a video rental company.

I'd invest a few bucks in a lawyer letter that politely tells them they have no case, and to please piss off. If you have to, UDRP arbitrations aren't that expensive, and I think you have a strong chance of winning it.

actually, tell them to pund fucking sand & go fuck themselves.,,

FACT.. BLOX is a damn video game,,

tell them the domain was originally a website about the game, but since the game is widely available for free now, that the domain was changed to adult.

Or something,, There's definitely a way out of this,, you just need to do your homework, starting with the word blox

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=blox

Unless they can prove that you're using the domain in order to capitalize on their branding efforts, there's nothing they can do. Your site doesn't say "The Blockbuster of Porn" or some nonsense like that. Don't worry about it.

Yep my sentiments exactly. :thumbsup

DH

you are fucked man, try to sell it to them, that's really the best you can do...

50 trademarked domains...

Hurry up and register makdonalds.com too :winkwink:

That will teach them,

Listen to this man. We ignore every C & D initially regarding domains. Trademark owners often think they have 15 inch dicks to swing around. Many many times their claims are fruitless.

Now if you get a certified or Fed Ex letter then obviously you have to evaluate the situation more. Depending on your knowledge of domains you might be smart to talk with a lawyer but even at this point there are still options which don't necessarily involve just handing over the name.

It all depends on how much energy & money you want to put into this. Bloxbuster.com is interesting. I am on the fence on this one but I am leaning more towards their claims being bullshit. But who knows. There is only one final opinion that matters should the name be contested. And the cases that get reviewed can really go either way... Good luck.:thumbsup

Phonetic misspellings are covered under trademark law if the TM holder can show dissolution of their brand/name. Obviously the use of adult is something that BlockBuster does not want to be associated with and can easily demonstrate bad faith.
WG

To me 'blockbuster' & 'blocksbuster' sound completely different.

I just looked at your site and their site and there is no way they have a case. Tell them so.

I can see why BlockBuster might be upset, but he isn't doing anything that anyone might confuse one as being the other. They have their work cut out for them proving bad faith.

If he was using their colors, or fonts, or design, then I would agree. Isn't the case here.

Good point

Who owns Block Buster? Viacom. What are some compaines Viacom owns? BET, Comedy Central, CMT, MTV, Nickelodeon, Spike, Vh1, Paramount, Dream Works and up until 2005 CBS.

You're going to lose it.

It doesn't depend if they have 1000 billions or $1 on their account. They have no case to win. I guess courts in the US don't decide upon bank accounts, but upon laws.

tell 'em to go fuck themselves.

if it was 'blocks' I would think they would have a case, but not 'blox' :)

Would you have registered that name at all if not for BlockBuster.com? Honestly? If you did, then stop being a dick and turn it over, be happy if they don't decide to fuck with you anyway.

Haha where do you live? :1orglaugh

Ask for $$$ and be happy!

yeah sell it to them for 5 zillion dollas

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as any attorney will tell you, you have chosen the correct first course of action... you ran to a porn forum called 'go fuckyourself' which is full of degenerates and retards and asked for advice on what to do about a major corporation and its own well seasoned in house counsel team that is threatening you.

you should browse the other forums. i am sure the blockbuster attorneys are on netpond or porn city or someplace also trying to figure out what course of action to take for your domain and are surely also seeking advice from a bunch of low income, unemployable twits. this way, you gain another edge.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Just send it to them who cares not worth the trouble! Now if it was block.com or buster.com I would tell them to eat a dick.

I have www.oilofalay.com

I figure it won't be long until I get one of those letters.

ignore it.

In 2001 i received a letter from Dreamworks about me owning dreamworks??????.com and using it for a porn page. I ended up selling it for 2k.

What trouble? He doesn't have to do anything. If they take the domain from him, its the same as when he gives it to them.

Yes quite aware of that, but then they have to demonstrate Bloxbuster is even an uncommon mispelling.
Which according to overture and wordtracker, it does not even warrant 1 single search a day wordwide.

http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/su...ter&country=us

Trademark and Intellectual property lawyers work on billable hours to the client often at $250 per hour. What you have here is an overzealous attorney making a spurious and frivolous case to pad his billable hours.

:thumbsup

If your not making much money from the site I'd do what Pipecrew just suggested

It's amazing how little the idiots on GFY know. There's nothing you can do. It's an obvious misspelling of the name. Who gives a motherfuck if blox is a word. They're going to get the name one way or another. You've already lost, so just ask for a few hundred and call it a day.

the Belgium I come from has blockbuster ...

Why you should transfer it to their client?????
Try to sell it very expensive to them...

so how come other mis-spellings of blockbuster aren't owned by them? seems so many of you would just let big business walk all over you. even if he did end up losing it i'd sooner waste their time and money than let them think they can get any domain that resembles their name for nothing.

Really ? I was in brussels and never saw one. Now that I'm in Wallonia, it is the same. No blockbuster shop.
They should sue blockbuster.be if they got shops in Belgium ;)