KillyKillall
Diamond Member
I run a group of game servers all titled "House of 1000 Corpses." We don't have a UT2004 (a specific game) server yet so we were about to launch one. While doing a search, I found out that someone has a server titled {HTC}.
I researched this and found out this was a clan called "House of 1000 Corpse" (no s at the end). I quickly registered www.houseof1000corpses.com and redirected it to my clan's site so that people looking for our servers could find the right site.
I then contacted the other clan out of courtesy to let them know that we would be launching a game server entitled "House of 1000 Corpses [Tucson] [BadAZ]" within the next 12 months. This name is somwhat similar to theirs and I wanted to make sure that the 15 members of their organization didn't get confused.
I was responded to by their leader posting my email on their main landing page and asking his members to send me email and let me know I was stealing all of their hard work. They were under the impression I'm trying to steal their userbase (all 15 member...sigh).
I have informed this group that I have been running these servers for quite some time (before they had their site according to their history and what they have told me).
They are now threatening to sue me based on this: http://www.techlawjournal.com/cong106/cybersquat/s1255is.htm and have notified me of the following:
"Just bringing this to your attention aready contacted an lawyer
verified i do have a case so if you wish to continue useing the houseof1000corpses.net domain directing it to your web site badaz.net
i will persue all actions nessesary to retain such domain from you at your cost
this is and will be your only warning "
I'm pretty sure this guy is full of *#&$ as far as having a case as we are not stealing anything from him and have a completely separate name of our work.
I had a few questions:
1) Could this guy actually sue me over this?
2) Does he have a leg to stand on?
Thank you in advance.
I researched this and found out this was a clan called "House of 1000 Corpse" (no s at the end). I quickly registered www.houseof1000corpses.com and redirected it to my clan's site so that people looking for our servers could find the right site.
I then contacted the other clan out of courtesy to let them know that we would be launching a game server entitled "House of 1000 Corpses [Tucson] [BadAZ]" within the next 12 months. This name is somwhat similar to theirs and I wanted to make sure that the 15 members of their organization didn't get confused.
I was responded to by their leader posting my email on their main landing page and asking his members to send me email and let me know I was stealing all of their hard work. They were under the impression I'm trying to steal their userbase (all 15 member...sigh).
I have informed this group that I have been running these servers for quite some time (before they had their site according to their history and what they have told me).
They are now threatening to sue me based on this: http://www.techlawjournal.com/cong106/cybersquat/s1255is.htm and have notified me of the following:
"Just bringing this to your attention aready contacted an lawyer
verified i do have a case so if you wish to continue useing the houseof1000corpses.net domain directing it to your web site badaz.net
i will persue all actions nessesary to retain such domain from you at your cost
this is and will be your only warning "
I'm pretty sure this guy is full of *#&$ as far as having a case as we are not stealing anything from him and have a completely separate name of our work.
I had a few questions:
1) Could this guy actually sue me over this?
2) Does he have a leg to stand on?
Thank you in advance.
