[131014] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: network name 101100010100110.net
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Perry)
Tue Oct 19 08:39:55 2010
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 13:38:53 +0100
To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Roland Perry <lists@internetpolicyagency.com>
In-Reply-To: <201010190123.o9J1Njra013666@mail.r-bonomi.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
In article <201010190123.o9J1Njra013666@mail.r-bonomi.com>, Robert
Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> writes
>Not to mention the fact that the company was originally _named_
>"Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing", and that '3M' was *just* a
>logo and trademark.
I recall that in the UK, before Nominet deregulated the name space, it
was forbidden to have a domain name which wasn't virtually identical to
your company name. Product names and trademarks weren't allowed. The
example used at the time was "you can have kelloggs.co.uk, but not
cornflakes.co.uk".
3m.co.uk wasn't registered until 1997 (a year after Nominet's birth).
--
Roland Perry
