network name 101100010100110.net
Roland Perry
lists at internetpolicyagency.com
Tue Oct 19 12:38:53 UTC 2010
In article <201010190123.o9J1Njra013666 at mail.r-bonomi.com>, Robert
Bonomi <bonomi at 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).
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Roland Perry
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