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Re: Gail.com FAQ

#22
GAIL[1] is also the name of a publicly traded Indian Oil Company. Just like most pre-Internet companies that "comes online", they also went with gailonline.com just like how SBI went with sbionline.com. However, for SBI, I saw recently that they have become pretty Internet savvy -- they own the `.sbi` TLD.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAIL

Re: Gail.com FAQ

#23

Reading this felt like a trip through a portal into the nascent Internet in late 90s. I hope this never goes down.

My favourite 90's style website, that's still running, is http://www.armory.com/armory.html , complete with FTP Index and user finger files.

Blocked by our company filter as an "adult" resource, so you might have to add a NSFW warning there.

Re: Gail.com FAQ

#24

Reading this felt like a trip through a portal into the nascent Internet in late 90s. I hope this never goes down.

My favourite 90's style website, that's still running, is http://www.armory.com/armory.html , complete with FTP Index and user finger files.

Can't forget https://stallman.org/ if we're talking about the 90s

Re: Gail.com FAQ

#26
From the domain takeover decision:

"vii) it is unlikely that the Respondent was unaware of the Complainant’s trademark considering the fame and tradition of the trademark GAIL;"

Are lawyers allowed to lie like that? It is obviously not unlikely that the someone has never heard of this obscure "manufacturer and distributor of ceramic products for architectural use" company.

Re: Gail.com FAQ

#27
post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My favourite 90's style website, that's still running, is http://www.armory.com/armory.html , complete with FTP Index and user finger files.

Blocked by our company filter as an "adult" resource, so you might have to add a NSFW warning there.

There's nothing actually NSFW at the link, just your filter being overzealous

Re: Gail.com FAQ

#28

See also http://nissan.com/ Background here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Motors_v._Nissan_Comp...

Another one that used to amuse me every time I mistook its domain for that of the magazine was http://www.theeconomist.com, but I see it is now long gone.

Here is an Archive link for reference: https://web.archive.org/web/20130119083638/http://www.theeco...

Re: Gail.com FAQ

#29
post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

but if you run a business, don't underestimate the value of a short, and well-named .com preferably one without hyphens too.

Is there any research on how the quality of domain for a brand affects its key metrics?

Define "key metrics".

Re: Gail.com FAQ

#30
post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My favourite 90's style website, that's still running, is http://www.armory.com/armory.html , complete with FTP Index and user finger files.

Blocked by our company filter as an "adult" resource, so you might have to add a NSFW warning there.

Can't think why they'd add NSFW to that site, it's a plain text site primarily. I guess there may be something NSFW in the FTP archive somewhere, but I think that's probably an overactive filter.
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