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Subject: Please spare us the Internet marketing hype.  Please.
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 17:35:53 -0500
From: Jon Loeliger <jdl@chrome.onramp.net>
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Folks,

In the continuing tradition of really cool domain names,
here are some more Close to The Edge.

jdl


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From: bostic@bsdi.com (Keith Bostic)
Subject: Procter and Gamble has diarrhea.

Forwarded-by: psl@acm.org (Peter S. Langston)
Forwarded-by: "pardo@cs.washington.edu" <pardo@cs.washington.edu>
Forwraded-by: Joshua_Putnam <josh@WOLFE.net>

From: Mark Dantche
Subject: Procter and Gamble has Diarrhea

Diarrhea.com that is.

Early in August, Procter and Gamble starting registering most of their
trademarked product names as commercial domains.  In the last two weeks
they moved onto ailments (headache.com), afflictions (diarrhea.com) and
body parts (underarms.com).

You can get the complete list via http://www.webcom.com/~walsh

Alternatively, just think of a common malady and do a "whois
common_malady.com".

Please P&G!!! Do not put up a graphically intensive site.

[According the above URL, during early August Kraft registered 133 names
 including Velveeta and Sanka; P&G grabbed Luvs and Metamucil; then Kraft
 started doing things like `cereals.com', `beverages.com' and P&G started
 grabbing ailments, afflications and body parts. -Pardo]

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In a shear fit of disbelief, I had to know:

    chrome 953 % whois Diarrhea.com

    Procter and Gamble (DIARRHEA-DOM)
       One Procter and Gamble Plaza
       P.O. Box 599
       Cincinnati, Ohio 45201

       Domain Name: DIARRHEA.COM

       Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
	  Singh, Manjit  (MS148)  msingh@PG.COM
	  513-983-5216

       Record last updated on 16-Aug-95.

       Domain servers in listed order:

       NS1.OAR.NET                  192.88.193.144
       NS2.MCI.NET                  204.70.57.242


Help us.  Spare us.  We have created a monster.  Will someone
*please* stuff Frankenstein back into Pandora's Internet-inna-box.

jdl