“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
The guy knows exactly what he is doing, there's really no chance they would stop it on your request.
The best way to tackle these problems is try and find copyright material of yours on his site, then keep issuing DMCA requests to his webhosts. We had someone copying large parts of our site in a similar fashion for similar purposes, it was a lot less effort for us to issue DMCA's and have his hosting accounts suspended than it was for him to keep signing up for new ones. It was a game of whack-a-mole but it worked in the end.
Trying to engage with them is often a complete waste of time, they will often be irrational and defensive which is infuriating. If you goad them into going into the offensive you are not going to come off well.
If you must communication with these people, I think it's best to keep tone neutral (not defensive or offensive), dry, entirely non personal (sign just with your company name, not an employees name) and concise. Replies should be well spaced so it appears a matter of non-urgency. Replies should also be designed to make response difficult (not keeping an open ended conversation going). Keep it as boring as possible for them. Unfortunately your first email to the person went straight into offensive mode, was personal, impassioned and appears urgent. Blogging about it isn't probably going to help either.
If he's not actually stealing anything from you, or doing anything illegal then there's not much you can do. Best course of action would be try not to care at all, and realise that he's probably actually not making any money at all. I'm not saying this to make you feel better, I strongly suspect it's the truth.
I do think it was a mistake not registering .org, a major TLD. As I understand it, changing domain ownership by force is a lengthy process. It would of just been easier to pay $10 a year for it.
If you want to be in a better position to protect yourself in the future consider a trademark.
I agree with essentially everything Tom suggests. I think that trademarks (TM) is something a lot of people forget to use, registered (R) trademarks is something I generally tell people to avoid because its often not going to help unless you have a significant amount of intangible monetary value. It does offer some protection like Tom suggests, but clearly it's not full proof. Still its better than nothing.
The guy knows exactly what he is doing, there's really no chance they would stop it on your request.
The best way to tackle these problems is try and find copyright material of yours on his site, then keep issuing DMCA requests to his webhosts. We had someone copying large parts of our site in a similar fashion for similar purposes, it was a lot less effort for us to issue DMCA's and have his hosting accounts suspended than it was for him to keep signing up for new ones. It was a game of whack-a-mole but it worked in the end.
Trying to engage with them is often a complete waste of time, they will often be irrational and defensive which is infuriating. If you goad them into going into the offensive you are not going to come off well.
If you must communication with these people, I think it's best to keep tone neutral (not defensive or offensive), dry, entirely non personal (sign just with your company name, not an employees name) and concise. Replies should be well spaced so it appears a matter of non-urgency. Replies should also be designed to make response difficult (not keeping an open ended conversation going). Keep it as boring as possible for them. Unfortunately your first email to the person went straight into offensive mode, was personal, impassioned and appears urgent. Blogging about it isn't probably going to help either.
If he's not actually stealing anything from you, or doing anything illegal then there's not much you can do. Best course of action would be try not to care at all, and realise that he's probably actually not making any money at all. I'm not saying this to make you feel better, I strongly suspect it's the truth.
I do think it was a mistake not registering .org, a major TLD. As I understand it, changing domain ownership by force is a lengthy process. It would of just been easier to pay $10 a year for it.
If you want to be in a better position to protect yourself in the future consider a trademark.