Any advice for domain Spamming victims?

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  andreworange · Member · Mar 15, 2007 at 3:46 pm

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  Some cynical domain spammer has noted the name of our humble wordpress blog – http://westendwhingers.wordpress.com – and set up http://westendwhingers.com no content, just a load of advertising on it.

  Any suggestions as to what we might be able to do to challenge this? Do we have a leg to stand on? We haven’t trademarked “west end whingers” but then again, it’s hardly likely to have been a coincidence?

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  drmike · Member · Mar 15, 2007 at 4:26 pm

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  http://icann.org/faq/#udrp and contact an attorney.

  Good luck,
  -drmike

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  andreworange · Member · Mar 15, 2007 at 4:35 pm

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  Thanks for the link, drmike.

  Yes, I had found that on icann but it specifically says “company’s name” which isn’t the case. Oh well, I guess I’d better put it down to experience. Sob.

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  andrew · Member · Mar 15, 2007 at 5:12 pm

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  A few times, I’ve ended up at bloggername. worpress.com blog… to find that it actually exists, and is full of ads. Things like this are a fact of Life 2.0…