What do you guys make of this (legal stuff)?

[JanTM]

I got this email just now:

Jan Nielsen


Dear Ms. Nielsen:

It has recently come to our attention that you are using the trademarked name "Lexus" as part of the name of your business. Specifically, we are referring to your domain name “Pornstar-Alexus-King.com.”

The Lexus name and logo are trademarks of Toyota Motor Corporation and may only be used by authorized Toyota Motor Companies and franchised Lexus dealers. Your business is not authorized to use the Lexus name or any Lexus logo.

As a result, we must request that you cease and desist from using the Lexus name.

Please contact me within the next 10 days to discuss a plan for correcting your uses of the Lexus name and transferring the domain name “pornstar-alexus-king.com” to Toyota Motor Sales, USA Inc. I can be reached at (310) 468-4770. We look forward to an amicable resolution of this matter.


Very truly yours,

Well apart from me being a Mr. and not Ms...
Doesn't this sound a little suspcious?

[Rocco]

does not sound like an official c+d letter, and you dont have to worry anyways, at least not due to toyota. the chick could c+d you, though.

[Cleo]

That sounds like someone named Leo telling me that I can't use the name Cleo.

[JanTM]

Cleo... my thoughts exactly.

However it does indeed appear as the sender is someone from Toyota. Although I admit I am not an expert on email headers

[tiny]

haha ya gotta be kiddin me,probly a lexus employee got caught lookin at your site durin work maybe haha...probly not but that is too funny they mailed ya

[Useless]

Damn, if your site bothers them, they better not go to http://www.69adultsextoys.com/findmo...FindStar=Lexus
They'll cry.
I'd like the Lexus Real Mouth.

[Cleo]

Seeing as there is the letter e in my name I would like to put everyone on notice that if you use the letter e in anything that you do you will need to either remove the letter e from all of your stuff or arrange payments to me. This also will apply to letters C L E O as well.

[Monkey Spanker]

Let's take it a step further, if I find out that anybody has been spanking their monkey I will have my people contact your people.

Anywho, I think their demand is pretty ridiculous also, I am sure there were porn stars named Lexus long before the car came out. Maybe some retired porn star needs to file a cease and desist on Toyota.

[Surfn]

Originally posted by JanTM
I got this email just now:



Well apart from me being a Mr. and not Ms...
Doesn't this sound a little suspcious?

If it's the name she uses tell them to piss off.

[Ramster]

That's a joke!!!!!!!

It wouldn't stand up in court anyway.
A-You are not using "Lexus", you have Alexus.
B-You do not refer to in any way Toyota.

Tell him to f-off and give him the urls to my sites so I can get more bookmarkers. |rasta|

[JanTM]

Yes. Alexus King is the name of the pornstar that is on my site there. Well it is most likely not her real name... but it is the name she uses.

My initial thought about this email was that it was some asshole trying to scam me out of the domain. Most spam like this comes from obscure domains and/or fake mail servers. This one seems somewhat for real... thats why I posted this.

Heck if they are worried about Alexus... how about this honey?
http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...pornstar+lexus

[RawAlex]

JanTM, reply back, tell them "send it to me in writing, I cannot accept email on this type of subject".

You won't get anything back, they would never put them in writing.

Alex

[Greenguy]

I'd ignore them until you got legit papers in the mail.

[jennym]

They may have run some sort of script, or spider or something that may have sent you an email automatically? I would call them and ask them WTF?

[Ramster]

I'm with Alex and Greenguy, ignore it until it arrives in writing. It's total BS.

[Tommy]

dont reply to the email

if anything happened later you could always deny receiving the email

They are sueing the pornstar lexus to make her change her name

[JanTM]

Thanks guys and girls. I'll ignore it until such time they mail it to me in writing

[Tommy]

dont you live in canada ????

[eman]

About 4 years ago I subscribed to a UK-based internet marketing forum which suggested that there was a profit to be made from registering creative domain names. I put on my thinking cap and registered a whole load of names, including newballsplease.com (for tennis pundits) and arolex.com (for watch retailers).

I had an offer on newballsplease.com, which failed to materialise, and received a very threatening letter from Rolex's UK lawyers regarding my inappropriate registration of arolex.com.

Rolex were not happy bunnies. They didn't want me to be associated with their business, which they jealously defend against all-comers. Apparently, Rolex watches are only available through registered retailers - never on the internet. I suggested that I transfer the domain to them, but they declined.

They forced me to pay the registrar to cancel my registration, and further required me to submit a letter witnessed by a Commissioner For Oaths (at my expense) to the effect that I renounced all rights to the domain name. In all it cost me about £80 to rid myself of the burden.

Within three days of my dissolving all links to Rolex somebody else registered arolex.com and so the whole merry-go-round started again. What a waste of time. The only winners in this are the legal people - they're laughing all the way to the bank.

<edit>
Just did a search on newballsplease.com and arolex.com and both return dns errors.
All is quiet in this corner of the speculative domain kingdom .....

[SirMoby]

JanTM, long time no chat. How you been Mr. Boob?

Obviously it's a script that went through a bunch of domain names but this script just isn't very good and it's the first pass they made. Once human checks the list your domain and a bunch of others will be removed from the list entirely.


So there was this guys that wrote this story about a couple called Adam & Eve and they want me 1,000,000 others to stop using the name StEVE becasue .....

[JanTM]

Tommy, Nope I live in Denmark... not Canada. But it is probably just about as cold and snowy here

Enam, interesting story. But of course Toyota could not possibly think I am trying to sell cars from my domains "pornstar-alexus-king.com".
I'm beginning to think exactly what SirMoby said... so for now its on the "ignore list"

Hey SirMoby, yeah long time no chat. Things are fine in boob-land How about in Moby's-pornstar-land?