i appreciate the heavy response here, thanks. i think some of you have missed the facts here, obviously because i didnt give enough, and are getting off track focusing on the trademark thing. I am a lemon law attorney, practicing in Pennsylvania. i know almost nothing about patent/trademark law. when i decided to start a website, the domain name i chose was available and i did not do a search beforehand and it was a very stupid mistake. (hey, i sue car manufacturers all day, thats it) the trademark holder is also a lemon law attorney, practicing in Pennsylvania. his website is mylemon.com. we are competing for the exact same business, and i intend to profit from the pursuit of that business. in that regard there is a clear potential trademark violation on my part, though it was not done in bad faith, which i have found is a requirement of TM violations. upon his cease and desist notice, i did just that.

the problem that i have is that i cannot get my new site indexed on google or msn, as the old site is still there. im not even talking about getting good search results, i mean just getting recognized by the search engines.

google has a "delete my domain" selection (paraphrasing there). should i use that and blow it up, or just leave it offline and wait for natural deletion? which way might be faster? btw i have been contacting all of the links to my old site and asking them to switch. many of them have, but there are several dozen that have not.