Dear All
We had a client who had a similar experience with a company based in
Carmarthen (west Wales) trying to do the same thing last year. The matter
ended up with Trading Standards and the Police involved.
Apparently the "modus operandi" was exactly the same but in this case they
were not bothering to register the names properly and even then for a
grossly distorted fee.
My advice for anyone who experiences this is to say you'll get back to them
and then if the name could be valuable to you then register it with one of
the more reputable but cheaper services around. The bottom line by and large
with this business is you largely get what you pay for. Our domain
registrars may be slightly expensive but at least I know that everything is
done efficiently and properly and more important legitimately,
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard King" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 8:02 AM
Subject: Domain squatting?
I wonder if anyone else on the list has been approached by a company with a
Welsh telephone number and calling themselves 'Inter-web Services' in
regard to possible registration of dubious domain names?
We received a phone call from someone claiming to be an ISP who has
received an application to register the two domain names:
www.britishantarcticsurvey.co.uk and
ww.britishantarcticsurvey.com - and was giving us a courtesy call just to
see if we were happy for them to go ahead with the registration.
The obvious question is why would anybody want to use such a name other
than the organisation named? We assume its some sort of come-on from
someone hoping we'd be willing to pay up some money. Needless to say he
will be disappointed - and may find himself in court should our good name be
endangered!
BTW: My belated thanks to all who replied to my earlier query (
Consultants - Information architecture ) your contributions were very
valuable and not only gave us some excellent food for thought, but have
also been shared with our 'powers-that-be'!
Richard King
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