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To: Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=  <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no>
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On 22 Mar 1998, Dag-Erling Coidan [iso-8859-1] Smørgrav  wrote:

> To put it bluntly, "They're moving" doesn't seem bloody likely. They
> wouldn't shut down the entire domain if they were just moving.
> According to the InterNIC, asus.com is on hold; there is another
> domain, asustek.com (created 1997/10/27) but my guess is it's a fraud.
> 
> In my book, "on hold" is bureaucratese for "they didn't pay the bill
> so we shut them down".

  Or, it means that ASUS doesn't hold a US trademark on "asus" in the US
and lawyers have come visiting InterNIC, so ASUS must fallback to its
original, and much older domainname, asus.com.tw

  So, go visit http://www.asus.com.tw  It has been working throughout this
whole "where is ASUS thread".

> DES, aka. DS10339, who usually pays his bills on time :P
> -- 
> fprintf(stderr, "I have a closed mind. It helps keeping the rain out.\n");

Tom


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