>> Ooo... web whores. :-D
>>
>> "We'll register this DNS name first, and then charge its rightful owners 
>> 10,000,000 USD! We'll be rich! RICH!!"
>>
>> Kinda like patent trolls...
>
> Not necessarily. We've called <name> and have <name>.co.uk, as we're 
> international we also took <name>.com. Now another company in Spain is 
> also called <name> and do something completely different to us, they 
> missed out on the .com and ended up with .com.es. We don't want their name 
> and they haven't offered to buy ours from us, we did use to get their 
> email from time to time when we had a catchall address though.

Our company has offices and factories in pretty much every country 
worldwide, yet the <name>.com belongs to some very small not-for-profit 
company based in the US that works in just one city.

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