[WEB4LIB] A lesson to be learnt from the britannica site?

[Dan Lester]

At 04:15 AM 11/24/99 -0800, Hanan Cohen wrote:

>I think there is a lesson to be learnt here, but being a non-librarian I 
>am not
>sure what it is.

The lesson is that Britannica was smart enough to grab these names 
themselves before some porn sites did.  Porn sites have done that with many 
other "variants" of names of major companies.  And variants can be the 
inability of most folks to spell, but also common typos (letter pair 
reversals, etc.).   Many companies have also been smart enough to grab 
names such as "britannicasucks" (which EB bought on 12 May 1999).

dan

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