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If someone is trying to push you down and take your Domain away from you, please remember that a SURNAME always trumps a TRADEMARK.

I owned HUMMEL.COM for many years.  In 1997 the German company that makes Hummel figurines tried to intimidate me and take away my domain name.  They even got InterNIC to turn of my DNS services during the dispute.  No email, no web page nothing.

I hired a lawyer and successfully beat back these people.  I won, because my name is Hummel and I was not selling figurines and I was legitimately using Hummel.com  I wasn't infringing on them or diluting anything.  It wasn't all that expensive either.  A few well-written letters letting the Germans know that I was not going to roll over, got them to go away.

Last year I sold Hummel.com and I swore that the original company would NEVER get the domain.  Another firm purchased it from me after I made sure they had a real HUMMEL in their management so that they too would be protected from the Cyber bullies.