I think I'm in trouble

I shouldn’t be blogging from work, but this is a big one:

Dear Customer,

We are contacting you regarding the possible cancellation of your privacy service for RINGNOKIA.COM.

We have received notice that there is a potential legal issue with this domain regarding copyright and trademark infringement and as such, you will need to contact the complainant listed below in this case for more information on this matter. We will verify that contact has been made no later than 2 PM (PST) 5/21/07. Failure to contact the complainant and if needed provide your contact information will result in the cancellation of your privacy service for the domain in question. We apologize that we are not able to be of further assistance in this matter at this time.

Complainant information,

Robert S. Weisbein, Esq.
DARBY & DARBY P.C.
rweisbein@Darbylaw.com
212-527-7715

Kindest Regards,
Deborah Real
Office of the General Manager
Domains by Proxy, Inc.

Oh snap! I’ll let you guys know what happens. I went ahead and contacted Robert.

About The Author

Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

xtina

Wow that sucks, hope it all works out. If it doesn’t, you can always be Ring Nckia (or not).
Bazza

Good luck mate.

I hope you didn’t kill someone’s mom and then joke about it on here. lol
PhoneBoy

Ew! Hopefully Nokia isn’t hassling you.
JaXX

Who is DarbyLaw anyways ? some kind of “Launch complaints and see people pee in their pants” company which says they have IP rights on everything before everyone ?

Dang… I wonder what a “Hey Rob, what’s all this about?” would do
Phil

I’m just taking a guess here, but – This is not from Nokia. Nokia has their own legal team internally, I seriously doubt they’d outsource to a couple clowns named “Darby & Darby”.
Apocalypsoâ„¢

HUH, I have had similar problems and I was really close to quit SF project beacuse of the similiar problems.

I’m with you bro, that’s all 4 now.. . .

Wishh U luck.. . . .

Teo
Hakeem

That sucks! Oh well..change it to ringcensored.com ! Haha. Joking. Anyway, good luck!
Random Finn

Many seem to think (even though jokingly) that this has something to do with the URL of ringnokia.com.

As far as I can understand, that’s not necessarily the case. It seems that this domain was registered with a privacy service that only shows the contact information of Domains by Proxy Inc. in the whois records. As Darby & Darby apparently had some issue with this site or its contents, they did a whois search and contacted Domains by Proxy who then forwarded the message to the actual owner, Stefan. It could just be some random image or piece of information they are after, not necessarily the URL.

Anyways, let’s hope that Nokia has nothing to do with this as it would indeed be embarassing. Good luck, keep us posted!
geekonimus

i agree with Random Finn.

and you gotta love Stefan’s spirit …. “Uh oh I think I’m in trouble … btw here are some spyshots of new nokia phones…” ;P

BLOG LONG AND PROSPER my friend…more power to you
romeo26

dang…those darby people seem like they are lower then DMV workers. yes iam slandering there name, soo what, i would like to see them try to sue me!!! but you should email nokia if they have any thing to do with darby & darby. if they do just say that your a kia bloger (for goodnes sakes) and just say that its ring no kia (just say its a inside joke with friends)!!!
Darby & Darby

You will be contacted shortly.
Dimilaz

We are with you Stefan!
Keep us posted