I registered Be for a small company a long time ago. I thought it was clever. They folded during the tech bubble.
clearly, it was older as now it would be encouraged to use Be
That company whose name used to contain HTML script tags Ltd
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Re: That company whose name used to contain HTML script tags Ltd
#42Is Companies House's website not done by GDS or something? I worked on a few GDS projects for DFT, we had to have independent pen testers test our services before they moved between phases.
Companies House wasn't compromised, they warned third parties about potential issues with the underlying data.
According to a thread [1] on Companies House's Developer Forum, they were.
[1]: https://forum.aws.chdev.org/t/cross-site-scripting-xss-softw...
Re: That company whose name used to contain HTML script tags Ltd
#43Re: That company whose name used to contain HTML script tags Ltd
#44Relevant context: https://twitter.com/zofrex/status/1319286955314614275 Apparently the name used to be \"> LTD
hitting mjt.xss.ht returns this: /* THIS SUBDOMAIN HAS BEEN BANNED FROM THE XSS HUNTER SERVICE. WE DO NOT ALLOW ABUSE OF OUR SERVICE, ALL SECURITY TESTING MUST BE AUTHORIZED. Please use our contact form if you believe this ban was a mistake: https://xsshunter.com/contact */
It previously returned an XSS test payload https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ElAYZTcX0AEyFUY?format=jpg&name=...
Re: That company whose name used to contain HTML script tags Ltd
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
And I thought Yahoo! (with exclamation mark) had it rough.
At least they're a little better than a hypothetical -"Yahoo" which would return no results for your company at all...
I was curious what googling only a negative query would do and for this, -"Yahoo" returns just the dictionary definition of the word "yahoo" and no search results.
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#46On a related topic, the name of the company I work for starts with a colon. The rest of the name is a common adjective. As you can imagine, it is virtually ungooglable at the moment. Any thoughts on how to get around this?
Is it "Colon Blow"?
This just made me laugh so hard. Phil Hartman was great. Here's the reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku42Iszh9KM
Re: That company whose name used to contain HTML script tags Ltd
#47On a related topic, the name of the company I work for starts with a colon. The rest of the name is a common adjective. As you can imagine, it is virtually ungooglable at the moment. Any thoughts on how to get around this?
It really is amazing how big a difference this makes.
I've started using Apple's Aperture software recently (I'm well aware it's been discontinued). I really like it, but my biggest frustration is that it's difficult to learn how to do new things, because "aperture" is a generic word in photography. I can't search for the name and get results about the software.
Re: That company whose name used to contain HTML script tags Ltd
#48For a minute I thought their name was (without the quotes) "[NAME AVAILABLE ON REQUEST FROM COMPANIES HOUSE]".
Seems like a regulation to add "computer code like expressions" to the list that requires prior approval of the Secretary of State might be useful.
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#49I registered Be for a small company a long time ago. I thought it was clever. They folded during the tech bubble.
Blink -- It's a deprecated tag now, and most browsers don't support it, but I would have loved to have seen that as a company... is still supported though....
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#50Fun fact: It's currently law that you can have the and "" characters in your name. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/17/schedule/1/made
I think I'd excited that as Schedule 1 of this Act doesn't exclude those characters.
For example you can use the characters w,i,n,d,s,o,r but catenated in an ordered string means you have to get special permission.
Arguably the attempt to register this was an attempt to breech the Computer Misuse Act (which would make it illegal).