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Why don't you give Peter a call? I've met him before. He seemed like a nice guy. See if you can resolve this thing without lawyers.

Btw, the name of his company makes this whole thing sound like a joke.

Seems a bit late for that, as he's already got his lawyers involved. There's nothing to resolve, other than me just shutting the site down. If he had a problem with me mentioning his name, he could have just emailed me and I would have immediately removed it with no questions and never mentioned it to anyone. The fact that he decided to skip that and just have his attorney try and bully me into shutting down and giving him the domain tells me that he's not interested in working anything out, just fighting competition in the most cowardly way possible.

The fact that a C&D landed in his mailbox means the lawyers are already involved.

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