Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 17:41:41 -0800 (PST) From: Tom <tom@sdf.com> To: Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no> Cc: Richard Foulk <richard@pegasus.com>, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Where's ASUS ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980321173753.12087A-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <xzpg1kboazn.fsf@hrotti.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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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