[Wolves] Off topic - travelwm

[Old Dan]

gary at walsall.uk.com wrote:
> Hi Jon,
> Th domain is travelwm.com and was registered over 2 years ago. The domain was parked on a server which by default always refreshed to diydating or a similar site. I have a family member who became a bus driver with travel west midlands about 6 months ago, and he has said that there is no company 'travelwm', in fact they are 'travel west midlands', which is part of the 'national express group'.
> Travelwm.co.uk is just the domain name that they are pushing their website on and they have no trademark or anything else on travelwm. Thier website has only recently started to take off, so this is why they are kicking a fuss up now. 
Actually the travelwm uk domain was registered back in 1996, so they are 
definitely pre-existing.  They could easily argue that you knew full 
well what their name was and the confusion that would occur.

AFAIK that would be all they would need to prove.

> Obviously, i am not going to say too much on what the domain was purchased for, as this will go through the courts if need be.
Why 'obviously'?  If you have a legitimate reason for wanting the domain 
then why on Earth would you want to hide it?

> Oh, I would like to thank the person who forwarded my email address to the express and star. The email address I use in here is only for here. I wonder if anything I posted previously in here will be in the paper soon.
Well whoever it was(it wasn't me) /could/ have forwarded the whois 
information and you would have had journalists at your door... ;)

(Although it has to be said to call the site www.diy-dating.com an 
'adult/dating site' is pushing it a bit - the description really does 
imply 'pr0n', doesn't it?  I think they've called it that for the 
sensation value (it is the Express & Star, after all...))

-- 
Dan