Re: UKNM: Re: excuse me, someone has stolen our domain ...

[Steve Johnston]

On 23/09/98, at 18:15, Sam Michel  wrote: 

>Anyone know what the guys who had registered

><http://www.altavista.com/> got from Digital when they

>bought the domain name off them? You'd have though a company like DEC would

>have had the foresight not to use a brand name for an Internet product that

>had

>already been registered by someone else.


$3.35 million and it was, of course, Compaq that coughed up.


On the second point. You forget how long ago Digital set up Altavista. It was a little R&D project, and no-one at that point foresaw the importance of branded portal search engines. Altavista software probably incorporated after Digital set up their search engine anyway.


Steve Johnston

Director of Development

IMRG (Interactive Media in Retail Group)


http://www.imrg.org/

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