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Dear Ms Baratta,
Thank you for your interesting letter dated 2005 February 18, which arrived by Express Mail, and which I signed for in my local Post Office today, 2005-02-23. I'm sorry for the delay, but my work hours do not coincide with the limited hours of the Astronaut Trail postal station where my PO Box is located, and I had to wait for my mid-week day off to retrieve mail that had to be signed for.
Your letter was marked, "Via E-Mail and Express Mail", but I have NOT received it by e-mail, and I have spent the past hour or so going through the "spam folders" of my various e-mail delivery points looking for it. May I ask that you resend the e-mail again? I have you in my Addressbook now, and your future e-mails will NOT be treated as spam.
By the way, I do NOT know that "Cingular is entitled to cancel your domain name registration", since I don't believe my position is contrary to the "Cybersquatting" law that you mentioned.
I would outline my opinions on this matter, but I'd rather wait to get the "machine readable" copy of your letter, so that I can Forward it to my friends at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, as well as 2600.Com so that I can get council on the matter. I also plan to take some time and read over the ICANN Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy which I have downloaded from the internet at my local public library (I have no phone line in my home), and will download it to my palm handheld when I get home for convienient reading in my spare time.
One thing that I DID notice while on the Gates terminal at the library, was that the Word Mark "cingular racing" came back with "Sorry, No results were found for your query." on the TESS (Trademark Electronic Search System) at http://www.uspto.gov - the US Patent and Trademark Office Web Site. Of the 18 word marks that came back on a search of "cingular", none of them seemed to include racing of any kind as a protected form of the word mark.
I wish you had contacted me about a week earlier. I'd have enjoyed working out this matter in a civilized discussion at the Daytona International Speedway. I'm really sorry that Jeff Burton got the Cingular Wireless #31 Monte Carlo caught up in that pileup near the end of the race. He was well on his way to a Top 10 Finish. You see, the web site is a hobby for me. I started the web site when BellSouth did NOT follow up it's BellSouthRacing.Com website with a CingularRacing.Com website after the cellular division merged with SBC's cellular division to form Cingular Wireless. You can tell by my registration date that I gave them MONTHS to register the domain name before me. And I've never heard a peep before now.
I've kept the homefires burning for these past few years with little reccognition, and with much gratitude towards BellSouth Mobility (and now it's heirs and assigns - Cingular Wireless) for the great boon it granted me in 1999 (long before Number Portability) in allowing me to have a telephone number that was unassigned, but was in the middle of a "Hundred Group" on a Corporate Rate. You might need the guys on the Regulatory side of the house to explain that to you, but I'd be happy to try if you'll just call me any afternoon after 3PM at my Cingular Wireless cell phone: 3-2-1-Liftoff (+1 321 543 8633).
A friend of Cingular Wireless,
Ozzie@CingularRacing.Com
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PS: If you know anyone at Cingular Wireless that wants a promotion based on the Space Shuttle Return To Flight in May, please have them call me at 3-2-1-Liftoff
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