Article: Ameritech fights business over Web site Phone company balks at entrepreneur's domain name

Dan Schramm thinks he has just as much right to the use of www.phonebell.com as Ameritech Corp.

The Milwaukee businessman registered the domain name for a Web site on telecommunications services he was developing for consumers.

But in May, Ameritech filed a lawsuit in Federal Court in Milwaukee contending that Schramm and his company, Quaterra Communications Corp., did not have the rights to Bell -- even if Schramm was using www.phonebell.com. Ameritech wants Quaterra to quit using the name. A lawyer for the company said in court documents that Ameritech is especially concerned that Quaterra wants to leverage the Bell brand and become a phone company. Ameritech officials declined to comment ...

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