The record speaks for itself.
A cease and desist demanding asset transfer is a serious document. So is twenty-seven years of continuous, public, verifiable ownership and active use. Here is the timeline — drawn from the public record and from correspondence the claimant itself sent us.
IConnectIons.com is registered and brought into active use as part of the eCorp "i"-family brand strategy. It has remained under continuous ownership and operation ever since — through the dot-com era, every domain industry cycle, and three decades of the open web.
The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine captures IConnectIons.com operating as an active website on July 27, 2003 — seventeen years before the claimant was founded. Documentary, third-party evidence of continuous operation. Captures continue every year since.
For twenty consecutive years before the claimant existed, IConnectIons.com operated as an active digital identity. Email accounts under @iconnections.com were used continuously. No trademark dispute. No demand. No claim.
iConnections, LLC is founded — twenty-one years after our domain registration. The claimant later applies for a federal trademark on the name. The application postdates our use by more than two decades.
iConnections, LLC approaches us to purchase IConnectIons.com. The approach is declined. A party that believes it owns a name does not need to buy it from someone else. This first attempt is a direct, voluntary acknowledgment of our ownership and prior rights.
iConnections, LLC returns and attempts to purchase IConnectIons.com a second time. Again declined. Two separate market attempts to acquire the domain through legitimate purchase — made before any infringement was ever alleged.
The claimant writes to us, in their own words, asking us to stop receiving messages intended for them at our domain:
The note treats our long-established domain and email infrastructure as if it were theirs. It is the claimant's own admission that they adopted a brand colliding with a pre-existing, long-operated identity — not the other way around.
Counsel for iConnections, LLC sends a letter alleging trademark infringement and demanding the transfer of the domain — the same asset they twice tried to purchase. After two failed market acquisitions and a written acknowledgment of our prior use, the claimant now seeks via legal demand what they could not obtain by negotiation.
We publish this page. The demand is rejected. We will defend the domain vigorously and pursue all available remedies for any harm caused by enforcement efforts that disregard our prior ownership, prior use, and the claimant's own prior conduct.
