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trewornan wrote: > Can't say I sympathise much. > > When Telewest couldn't get blueyonder.com they got > blueyonder.co.uk instead - which is a perfectly > reasonable thing to do. > > They warned this guy that they would have to use the > blueyonder.co.uk domain and that there was likely to > be substantial amounts of mis-addressed mail as a > result (goobers being goobers - no fault of Telewest). > > I don't see that Telewest have done anything wrong. > > The trademark issue is a bit irrelevant anyway since > they seem to be in completely different areas of > business. > > So now he's getting mis-addressed mail, well boo hoo! > What does he think - just because he's got > blueyonder.com nobody else is allowed to use .co.uk or > .org or .net or . . . well, where do you stop. > > I think he's a bit of a git to be honest. If he was that worried he should have registered blueyonder.* (ie .co.uk, .com, org etc). Tough luck that he hasn't :) Kind regards, Julian -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html