On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Richard King wrote:
> 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 www.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!
It is also possible that it is simply the ISP itself trying to drum up
business - you only have their word that they have received this
application...
Jon.
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Jon Warbrick
Web/News Development, Computing Service, University of Cambridge
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