Has anyone heard of a company called "fags name"?

[Xest]

...or something similar, apparently a domain I hold, fags.name infringes on their trademark yet I've been unable to find any trademark similar to this after a fair bit of searching. The only active patent I could find was this:

http://www.fag.com/content.fag.de/en/index.jsp

Now, the complaint did come from Germany so I can only guess this is who it is. I was under the impression however that trademarks don't hold much weight in taking precedence over words in common useage, you can't trademark "sex" and then take over the all too famous sex.com domain, even if your company was called SEX long before of course.

Seriously, I don't care if some company is losing £10 billion a year, they aren't having my you.have.a.fags.name IRC bouncer. I will fight them to the end!

Yes I realise there is much political incorrectness in this post, I hope no one takes that portion of it too seriously

[Lairiodd]

You got a solicitor's letter ? Wouldn't they have to tell you who there are ... and also show registration ?

[Xest]

No just an e-mail from Sedo who I had the domain parked with. It's a legit e-mail but I think they're just trying it on tbh, I've asked advice from people who work at ISPs dealing with this kind of thing and they seem to think the same. It's a bit poor of Sedo to suspend domain parking on the domain without even giving me any notice that someone has filed a complaint though tbh.

I've not heard anything from my domain registrar at all and fags.com and fags.net seem to be just parked domains and have been for some while so I don't think they've really got much to go on.

[Gandelf]

I know that people's names can't be Copyrighted, e.g. "Fred", "Susan", "Ahmed" etc, so technically, if you could identify some country in the world where "Fag" was a proper name, you could argue that the FAG trademark cannot be infringed because it's a proper noun.