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Re: [LUG] OT blueyonder.com vs blueyonder.co.uk

 

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

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