At the risk of this thread being indexed, here is the full e-mail I received for the benefit and education of all you NamePro members. Just so you know, I've already cancelled my registration of the typo domain LibertyMutualCom.com
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Dear Mr. "Changa
":
We have been notified that you recently registered the domain name
www.LibertyMutualcom.com with GoDaddy Software, by using our federally
registered "Liberty Mutual" trademark and that you have set-up an active
website which purports to offer Liberty Mutual insurance products.
The term "Liberty Mutual" is a federally registered and protected
trademark of Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, a Massachusetts domiciled
insurance company which conducts business operations in 19 countries and
the fifty United States. We have used the name "Liberty Mutual" in
connection with a variety of products and services in the insurance and
financial services industry in the United States since 1917 and
internationally since 1993. The name "Liberty Mutual" is a federally
registered trademark on the Principal Register of the United States
Patent and Trademark Office, Registration No. 1405249 (August 12, 1986)
and Registration No.2734195 under International Class Code 036 for
financial services. These federal trademark registrations provide
Liberty Mutual with nationwide protection of its trademark in the United
States as well a federal cause of action against infringers under the
Lanham Act (15 United States Code, Sections 1051 - 1127).
The term "Liberty Insurance" has been and is currently used by Liberty
Mutual and several of its subsidiaries as a trade and brand name for
products and services for several years including licensed insurance
subsidiaries in the U.S and internationally, including: Liberty
Insurance Corporation (since 1984), Liberty Insurance Compania de
Seguros (Spain), Liberty Insurance Company of America, Liberty
Insurance Underwriters Inc. (NY), and Liberty Insurance Holdings.
Your domain name and accompanying website infringe on our trademark and
are confusingly similar to our
www.LibertyMutual.com website and several
other domain names and websites which we have owned and operated since
1996. Your website prominently uses and displays our federal trademark
in the domain names and text of the website and in the metatag
information and illegally uses our trademark to mislead consumers and
divert legitimate traffic from legitimate Liberty Mutual websites. You
are neither an appointed agent, broker, or partner of Liberty Mutual and
do not have any license or authority to use our trademark. There are
also no records at the Colorado Insurance Department to indicate that
you are licensed to solicit or sell insurance. Your registration of a
known trademark as a domain name and your use of it for a website are
violations of U.S. federal law and your Registration Agreement with
GoDaddy.
The Liberty Mutual trademark is widely known and virtually any trademark
or Internet search on the name "Liberty Mutual" leads to our main
company website,
www.LibertyMutual.com. Your recent registration (July
17th, 2005) of the trademark means it is likely that you were aware, or
should have been aware, of the pre-existing Liberty Mutual trademark,
domain names and websites, and therefore your registration of a federal
trademark as a domain name constitutes a bad faith registration in
violation of the federal Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act of
1999 (15 U.S.C. 1125(d)(1)).
You are directed to immediately cease and desist from using the Liberty
Mutual registered trademark and the Liberty Insurance trade name, or any
misspellings, as your domain name. You are further requested to remove
any and all references to "Liberty Mutual" or "Liberty Insurance" or any
misspelling from any meta tags, HTML code, text, or content on your
website and to transfer ownership of the domain name to Liberty Mutual.
Your immediate attention is requested. Please contact me to confirm
that you are taking the steps necessary to comply with our requests.
Christopher Sloan
Assistant Vice President & Senior Corporate Counsel
Liberty Mutual Insurance Company
175 Berkeley Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02117 U.S.A.