At 05:39 AM 12/9/2005 +1100, you wrote:

> > I don't understand it. If you are the legitimate owner of a domain
> > name, eg Telecom (as happened in NZ) and then the company
> > that became Telecom got really big and wanted (demanded) your
> > domain name, how can it be just snatched off you ?
> >
>
>Yep, i'm pretty sure big companies can do that - I think the US has laws that
>allow them to, not sure about Oz? It helps your chances a //lot// if you're
>actually using the name for something. There's a Japanese-American fellow, 
>a Mr
>Uzi(?) Nissan who owns nissan.com. Last time I looked he was being leaned on
>severely by the Nissan car company who want the name. They're stuck with
>nissanmotors.com (?) @ the mo' but Mr Uzi runs a computer shop from _his_
>website so he's able to give Nissan a run for their money. Good on him is what
>I say! :) It's a problem for small operators with business names 
>generally, not
>just on the web. Some years ago in Melb when Planet Hollywood opened @ the
>casino, they found there was a "Planet Hollywood" fish'n'chip shop out in
>Melbourne's depressing western suburbs. :)) The owner was a greek guy 
>who'd run
>the biz for something like 20 years and then finds he's getting all these 
>legal
>threats from a posse of US lawyers. :o So best advice probly is .. if you 
>don't
>wanta lose ---> use it!
>Just my 20c worth - Debbie

The domain ATI.com was apparently squatted (so to speak) upon by a 'company'
that called itself "Artificial Turd Industries". They sold plastic dog poop
imported from Spain.

I suspect the whole thing was cooked up to embarrass and relieve the larger
ATI of significant sums of money, but they apparently had a legitimate
business selling their cr*p, so there was no prima facie proof.

One way or the other, ATI.com now goes to the K.Y. Ho's company as you'd
expect, and the 'other' ATI is still around, at least something that looks
just like I remember their old web page is:

http://www.announcetech.com/realpoop.html

Best regards,

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