NTCC Threatens ntccXposed.com

NOTE: As will be made clear again on the last post, all information here -except any comments- is copied by permission from www.ntccxposed.com

 

The following letter was sent from an attorney representing NTCC, to a company that provides anonymity for the owner(s) of ntccXposed.com. They registered the name of the website in their name, Domains By Proxy, instead of the name of an individual or group.

The letter is posted here in it’s entirety:

Domains by Proxy
ATTN:  Legal Complaints
15111 N. Hayden Raod, Suite 160
PMB 353
Scottsdale, AZ  85260

RE:  New Testament Christian Churches of America, Inc.

Dear Sir or Madam:

This firm represents NTCCofA, Inc.  We previously contacted you regarding a domain name registered by you on behalf of one of your clients (www.newtestamentchristianchurches.com). I sincerely appreciate your prompt attention to tha tmatter and helping us obtain a result that was favorable to me client.

Unfortunately, it appears that the harassment is not going to end so easily. Another domain name has been registered by your organization that is directed at my client.  That domain name is www.ntccXposed.com.  That web site contains numerous articles, allegedly written by a prior minister of my client, that directly refer to NTCC as a cult and provide other information that is critical, false, defamatory and derogatory.

According to section 4 of your proxy agreement, you have declared that you will terminate service and disclose identifying information if your services are being used to defame, embarrass, harm, abuse, threaten, or harass third parties, or to assist in the violation of state or federal laws of the US and/or foreign territories.

The information contained on the www.ntccXposed.com web site is not only harassing and defamatory but is also libelous.  I therefore respectfully request that you immediately terminate the services of your client and disclose your client’s identifying information so that we may proceed with pursuing legal remedies against your client.  Your prompt attention and assistance in this matter will be most appreciated.

Sincerely,

Douglas J. Lineberry

Douglas Lineberry
201 Saint Helens Avenue
Tacoma, WA 98402
http://www.lklawgroup.com
Email: doug@lklawgroup.com
Phone: 253-274-1400 

For the record, I would like to add the original letter from NTCC’s attorney to this page. The letter at the top of this page is actually the second letter, and second time this happened.

(May 2006)

For reference purposes, here is the first letter (Jan 2006):

RE: New Testament Christian Churches of America, Inc.

Dear Sir or Madam:

This firm represnts New Testament Christian Churches of America, Inc. My client has contacted me regarding a domain name registered by you on behalf of one of your clients. The domain name is www.newtestamentchristianchurches.com.

My client was incorporated in August 1987 and has continuously used the name “New Testament Christian Churches” to identify itself. It claims that the name as its trade name.

The persons that have recently registered www.newtestamentchristianchurches.com as a domain name are not officers or members of my client. According to their web site, they are “Ex-members, providing basic information about the church to those interested.” To date, their web site has no content other than a link to FACTnet.org, where various individuals post information critical, defamatory and derogatory about my client.

According to section 4 of your proxy agreement, you have declared that you will terminate service and disclose identifying information if your services are being used to defame, embarass, harm, abuse, threaten, or harass third parties, or to assist in the violation of state or federal laws of the United States and/or foreign territories.

The use of my client’s trade name by your client to create a web site whose only purpose is to post and link to information that is critical, defamatory and derogatory with respect to my client is clearly a use that falls within the above description. Moreover, as my client claims the name New Testament Christian Churches as a trade name, the use of that name by a third party violates the federal Anti-Cyber squatting Consumer Protection Act.

I therefore respectfully request that you immediately terminate the services of your client and disclose your client’s identifying information so that we may proceed with pursuing legal remedies against your client and acquiring the domain name that your client has illegally appropriated. Your prompt attention and assistance in this matter will be most appreciated.

Sincerely,

Douglas Lineberry