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Re: Anyone heard this story yet?
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Thu, 31 Aug 2000 19:33:49 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Scott Edward Sanburn writes:
> Jeremy,
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> > > > In lugnet.general, Mark Sandlin writes:
> > > > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/12944.html
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> > Never underestimate the power one has by irritating a corporation.
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> Indeed, but I can't imagine why anyone do this to anybody. Doesn't TLC have
> enough problems without this as well? It's just another example of people
> wasting other peoples time, money, and resources, when people *know* better.
> Woouldn't it have been better to do something constructive or something?
Sorry but I just have to throw my 2 cents in here. IMHO this is TLC's own darn
fault. It shows their incompitance when it comes to the internet. They should
have registered www.legolandwindsor.com when they named it Legoland Windsor.
Granted that www.legoland.co.uk makes perfect sense but that doesn't matter
they should register both. Just as they should register the full name of all
of their parks and major corporate divisions. They should even have them
forward appropriately. FYI www.legolandcalifornia.com is registered by
Global Wave Enterprises but it links to nothing so I don't know if they have
reserved it for TLC or are squating on it. Seeing Global Wave lists a HOTMAIL
account on the Whois database my guess is they are squating on it.
Companies register alternate URL's like this all the time and IMHO it is good
practice and it avoids a lot of headaches. In fact most large companies
register .org and .net and even some other domains for every URL they own.
Whats a few hundred or even a couple thousand dollars for domains for such a
large company? It's not even a blip on the raidar.
It's just like when they announced LEGO Direct without preregistering
www.legodirect.com. They just are not a technically savy company yet.
Anyway www.legolandwindsor.com is something LEGO should have taken care of long
ago so in my oppinion they deserve what they got and should leave Mr. Legoland
Windsor alone.
Eric Kingsley
The New England LEGO Users Group
http://www.nelug.org/
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| (...) Agreed. In this particular case, it seems pretty logical that "legolandwindsor" is probably associated with the Lego theme park with a similar name. However, things get a lot more cloudy when it's sting.com (which the pop star recently tried (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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| Eric, (...) have (...) better. (...) darn (...) should (...) Windsor. (...) matter (...) all (...) have (...) HOTMAIL (...) good (...) a (...) long (...) Legoland (...) I don't really have any disagreements with TLC's own incompetence in this (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Anyone heard this story yet?
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| (...) True. I know one company that has registered thirty to forty-odd other urls, none of them in use, just to make sure that this sort of thing doesn't happen to them. Note that these include adding derogatory suffixes to their name as well. I (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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| Jeremy, (...) rich (...) this (...) this (...) Indeed, but I can't imagine why anyone do this to anybody. Doesn't TLC have enough problems without this as well? It's just another example of people wasting other peoples time, money, and resources, (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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