> As an example of what can happen if you *don't* register your
> organization on-line, the URL http://www.mcn.org/ links to the
> Mendocino Community Network rather than the Museum Computer Network.
> The same thing happened to MTV who were slow off the mark on the
> Internet and had to pay quite a lot (largely to lawers I suspect) to
> get their name back on-line.

As an interesting side note to this problem,
here is a little story about something that
happened here at ASU. As many people know
we hosted the SuperBowl this year. One of
our servers had the domain name
www.superbowl.com. We had been developing
the web pages since September. We got
nearly 100,000 hits a month on these pages,
but as soon as the NFL decided to get in
on the action they decided that the word
superbowl was proprietary and that they
had all legal rights to it.

We would have liked to keep the name
but we try to aviod lawsuits, so we
begrudgingly handed it over to them.
They didn't have to pay a cent!
I suppose that is the way of big business.



R.B. Wilkins
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