How did you handle this complaint scoutas?
I got similar notice and thought it was spam or another scam. Then I got an email from sedo saying that it removed my brazilian domains from their parking program because they got a threating letter from the Ministry of Tourism of Brazil ....
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To Whom it May Concern:
The Brazilian Federal Government, through the Ministry of Tourism, has found that the domain(s):
(DOMAIN NAMES INTENTIONALLY OMITTED)
relates pornography with Brazil or characteristics associated with the Brazilian Identity on its domain name(s).
The registration and use of this domain name may lead users to believe that Brazil is a tourist attraction and pole of sexual activities, which interferes on the position and image of the country.
Moreover, websites with pornographic contents on the Internet that makes direct and/or indirectly mention to the characteristics related with the Brazilian identity, such as colors of the flag, culture pictures and images of cities, sets as a crime, punishable by the Brazilian Penal Code, Federal Law n. 9.279/1996:
Art. 191. Reproducing or imitating, in whole or in part and in a way that may induce to error or confusion, coats of arms, escutcheons, or national, foreign or international official badges, without the necessary authorization, in a mark, title of establishment, trade name, insignia or advertising sign, or using such reproductions or imitations for economic purposes.
It should be noticed that any action done with the purpose of prostitution or other forms of sexual exploitation involving children and/or adolescents is a heinous crime and its punishment is more stringent under the Brazilian Penal Code (Código Penal Brasileiro). Moreover, this practice is also provided in our Statute of Children and Adolescents (Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente), which seeks, among other determinations, establish that is the duty of all prevent the occurrence of threat or violation of rights of children and adolescents (article 70).
Through this letter, the Ministry of Tourism of Brazil requests that you provide a written assurance within the next seven (7) days that you will:
1. Immediately discontinue any and all use of the domain(s)
2. Immediately and permanently refrain from any use of the term that associates Brazil to the pornography on the Internet;
3. Remove any and all pornographic content or dissociate it with the Brazilian Identity or Brazil.
We await your response within the period mentioned above and we are at disposal for further information on this subject through the address listed on the signature of this message.
Best Regards,
MINISTRY OF TOURISM OF BRAZIL
[email protected]
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Now I am extremely confused how a parked domain on sedo is a threat to tourism in brazil? None of my domains are worthy of a complaint. All are generic phrases. And sedo has hundreds of domains with brazil or brazilian on their parking program with adult ads.
Has anyone else got an email from the ministry of tourism? How about sponsors like OC Cash & Nasty Dollars?