Trademarked Domain - Got Email from Apple

[Fatbat]

Is there somewhere I can transfer the domain where they won't care? And should I host it somewhere offshore?

Transfer to a Chinese host and registrar. They generally don't give a fuck about US law.

I am transferring my Domain to NameCheap anyway, and I have offshore hosting that ignores DMCA. Not sure if there's much else I can do, but it doesn't seem like Apple really pursues it since sites like AppleInsider have been up for so long.

If it's a .com, .net, .org or any other TLD controlled by ICANN it doesn't matter where you transfer it to, any registrar that answers to ICANN will hand over your real info if served and the domain in a winning UDRP or WIPO dispute in a heartbeat.

 

[Ar Scion]

Ask them for a phone number and an address so you can meet them in person.

 

[pocketrockets]

The site is ranked 1 in google for huge keywords. It's a blog. How do sites like AppleInsider and MacRumors stay online then for so many years?

Well, they aren't breaking any of Apple's trademark guidelines

Apple - Legal - Copyright and Trademark Guidelines

 

[onigen]

If it's a .com, .net, .org or any other TLD controlled by ICANN it doesn't matter where you transfer it to, any registrar that answers to ICANN will hand over your real info if served and the domain in a winning UDRP or WIPO dispute in a heartbeat.

^ This

Get off WF and chat with the proper attorney (if the domain is worth keeping).

 

[-joe-]

Surprised no one's mentioned katzglobal for the domain.

 

[onlinemoniez]

If it's a .com, .net, .org or any other TLD controlled by ICANN it doesn't matter where you transfer it to, any registrar that answers to ICANN will hand over your real info if served and the domain in a winning UDRP or WIPO dispute in a heartbeat.

^
This. Fatbat= most informed guy on W F. Countless times he has posted truth in threads otherwise full of nonsense and stupidity.

 

[DanWesson]

...or just take it down before you get sued and end up in federal, pound me in the ass, prison.

/I don't have anything constructive to add

 

[jmizzle]

$1k/day sounds like something I'd go to a lawyer for, as opposed to WickedFire. Why are you doing anything without getting legal advice from someone that deals with shit like this every day?

 

[jr_sci]

Checked the headers of the email and found Anonymous Email - Anonymous SMS - Sharpmail.co.uk in it, looks like they were using an anonymous email sender...probably a competitor.

Someone is trying to make a fool out of you. Don't give a shit.

 

[greenleaves]

Don't dos:
Don't go to a lawyer

Do:
Take the advice from next random forum poster

 

[Yuma504]

If the site is pulling in $1k a day + it has a trademarked term in it; then get it off GoDaddy for sure.

^THIS X 10 ! I have been royally fucked by GoDaddy in the past.

 

[CLKeenan]

^THIS X 10 ! I have been royally fucked by GoDaddy in the past.

^ X 100 (so in essence x1000)!!! I've also been royally fucked by GoDaddy

 

[richcam]

Wait until they file a UDRP

When and if they do, buy a new domain and 301

^^this

Or better yet do it now, change to the short version, if it applegodmeatspin.com change it to agmeatspin.com, 301 should retain some of the serp and even PR.