Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 17:35:53 -0500 From: Jon Loeliger <jdl@chrome.onramp.net> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Please spare us the Internet marketing hype. Please. Message-ID: <199509122235.RAA12625@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 ------- Forwarded Message 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] ------- End of Forwarded Message 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
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