HW: Domain Names - Short Sharp Shock

[Bob Lennon]

In a message dated 10/9/2001 6:08:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
chris at HAWKLORD.UKLINUX.NET writes:


>  Again there
> is a very famous presidence here if you think the similarity of domain
> names is a problem....  the url bbc.com (It's something that obvious if
> I'm wrong) sends you to a company in America not the Broadcasting
>

actually, that was sorted out a while back.
if you go to bbc.com, it will now re-direct you to the bbc site.
I remember seeing this a few years ago and wondered how the bbc let that one
go.
bob