From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Mar 21 18:05:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA14325 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Sat, 21 Mar 1998 18:05:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.213.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA14315 for ; Sat, 21 Mar 1998 18:05:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom by misery.sdf.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #3) id 0yGZlf-00039Q-00; Sat, 21 Mar 1998 17:41:43 -0800 Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 17:41:41 -0800 (PST) From: Tom To: Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= cc: Richard Foulk , hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Where's ASUS ? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id SAA14316 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message