UKNM: RE: UKNM Digest V1 #284

[Wilson, Jonathan]

Hi


HMV and Waterstone's have been approached by a company called Business

Serve, (PostCode LA1 1NN) who have detailed attempts by a 'hotmail user' to

register twenty or so possible URLs with our business names in them -

HMV-records.co.uk; Waterstonesdirect.com. They called me in response to

having received all these name requests, and wondered if we would like to

register them before the member of the public did. I have a couple of

problems with this: One - if you want to register CocaCola and you can, why

would anyone want to offer it to Coca-Cola for the same fee? Two: as a name

buyer I'd go potty if a name I had registered an interest in was offered to

someone else. Three: could this possibly be a scam to get me to panic and

register a few names making the service agency several hundred quid? ;-)


If any of you have had the same call about a James Hart, who has invested in

30 names (to my knowledge) to date, perhaps you might want to be suspicious

- this bloke is clearly a very wealthy man buying hundreds of speculative

names...


Thoughts?


Jonathan Wilson

Internet Business Manager

Waterstones.co.uk


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