A Lincoln woman who has worked as an exotic model and and is featured on the Internet wants a federal judge to order a company to give up a domain name she says is hers.

Adrienne Meints said in a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Lincoln that the company purchased the domain HotAdri.com. without her consent.

According to the lawsuit, Meltech Inc. purportedly bought the name last month from Octogy Media Partners. Meints said in the suit that the domain name is owned by her “by virtue of her contractual relationship” with Octogy. She said Octogy did not have the right to sell or otherwise convey the name to Meltech.

In addition to an injunction that would return the name to Meints, she is seeking various damages of not less than $10,000 nor more than $100,000 from Meltech and Shane Harrington, who is identified in the suit as the sole or co-owner of the company.

Meints declined to comment Tuesday.

Her attorney, Karisa Johnson of Omaha, said the lawsuit was about ownership of the domain name and not the content on the Web site.

“That’s not what this is about,” she said.

Harrington said he could not understand why the lawsuit was filed against his company. He maintained that Steve Hoisington of Hoisington Productions was the rightful owner of a domain name.

The lawsuit, filed last week, has some relation to a suit pending in Lancaster County District Court. In that case, Meltech is suing Meints on a number of claims, including breach of contract.

According to the state case, Meltech and Meints in 2006 entered into a contract in which the company agreed to manage and promote Web sites featuring images of Meints.

Meltech claims Meints violated the agreement by, among other things, directing users of the Web sites to view another site created by her. The company also claims that Meints failed to share revenues from proceeds from parties, promotions, magazine shoots and other activities.

Meints made $25,000 from a contest sponsored by Gallery magazine and $5,000 from one sponsored by Hustler, according to the lawsuit.

In her answer and counter-claim to the state case, Meints said Meltech still owes her money for revenue she generated for its Web site.

Meltech terminated its contract with Meints in June, according to court papers filed by her.

Meints said in the federal lawsuit that Meltech told her attorney earlier this month that the company was willing to sell HotAdri.com back to Meints if she dropped her state court claims.

Reach Clarence Mabin at 473-7234 or cmabin@journalstar.com.