A completely new meaning to BMI.
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I love cybersquatters with a sense of humour. Do you remember the people who sat on www.baa.com for years, and set up a site dedicated to sheep while they were at it? (Not worth looking at it today - it really is BAA's now.)
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bmi british midland aren’t the airline to have had cybersquatting trouble.
Qantas had to battle to get qantas.co.nz from a professional cybersquatting company. easyJet actually lost their case against the bloke who was selling ink cartridge refilling at easy-jet.com and ending up having to buy him out. And Kuwait Airways are still fighting a legal battle with a bloke in India for kuwaitairways.com.
I think the battle for baa.com was the funniest though. The arguments between the two parties’ lawyers included such classic one liners as
Qantas had to battle to get qantas.co.nz from a professional cybersquatting company. easyJet actually lost their case against the bloke who was selling ink cartridge refilling at easy-jet.com and ending up having to buy him out. And Kuwait Airways are still fighting a legal battle with a bloke in India for kuwaitairways.com.
I think the battle for baa.com was the funniest though. The arguments between the two parties’ lawyers included such classic one liners as
having registered the domain name in 1995 ostensibly as a site devoted to sheep and woolly resources
it is also a well known English dictionary word, being the onomatopoeic representation of a sheep or lamb bleating
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Allegedly the same is true in Australia for Virgin Blue, as a squatter registered the name www.Virginaustralia and Branson was not prepared to buy him out at the price he was asking. So now, he will get nothing and the public there love the name Virgin Blue anyway!
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I love cybersquatters with a sense of humour. Do you remember the people who sat on www.baa.com for years, and set up a site dedicated to sheep while they were at it? (Not worth looking at it today - it really is BAA's now.)
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I thought bmi stood for "Baggage Missing International". That was certainly my experience
And you dont lose bags with any other carriers i suppose
Thought the Union Flag carrier were the worst for misplacing our clean underpants.
And you dont lose bags with any other carriers i suppose
Thought the Union Flag carrier were the worst for misplacing our clean underpants.
