h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Inspired by the thread about searching for your h2g2 name in Google, I tried putting my name in a .com address: www.myname.com.

I found a page about a company selling Graphical Information Systems. Their logo was a sundial obviously drawn by somebody who had never seen a sundial. (Would you buy products from a company who can't even get their own logo right?)

Do any of you get anything interesting when you try it?

A picture of a rat with a beer and a cigarette Which leads to a page with the URL as a title and saying "at the end of the Internet". I don't understand...

Danny B.

I'll give you three guesses at the subject of whisky.com

Danny, Is that your personnal website? - it's certainly enough to be yours

Well, as expected polidari.com came up with nada, but wormwood.com appears to be the place to go if you want a performance yacht!

Hey... what are you saying, Whisky?

It's not my website, I'm afraid. The nearest I get is my h2g2 personal space

There's Tube.com, ATube.com and TheTube.com, Tube.org, [Broken link removed by Moderator].net, Tube.de ... I stopped looking then.

uncle heavy looks to be a really dull and possibly defunct band. and i thought i was unique

www.orcus.com is...

"Still very under construction"

However, Orcus.co.uk provide IT services as do Orcus.net - except they're in New Zealand...

Intriguingly [Broken link removed by Moderator].org gets you diverted to a page with lots of naked ladies who apparently take all their clothes off...

no. .com here

but I had if I could be sued by Paramount pictures, because they stole my nick name, mangled it and trade marked it to use it in Enterprice as name for charrector called Dr Phlox.

my nick is very simular, but I have it longer (about 5 yrs), but no trademark on it.

one other remarque is that my nick was first phelox. I had e-mail adres with it startrekmail, but they stopped.

[Broken link removed by Moderator].com wasn't there - but www.ane.com exists - and belongs to "Attorney Network Exchange"

www.rikke.com is one greenish page sayng "rikke.com" in small letters - and an email adress. Not very exciting at all...

AneRikke

Nope... and in a way I'm glad - I wouldn't really want that one turning up in the company cache.

Liam.

But Phlox is a common name for a type of flower. You can't trademark a word like that.

There's a Duncan.com - Clan Donnachaidh Society apparently.

but you can it put Dr in front of it, because Dr Phlox makes it unique

There is no website at peregrin dot com, but the name is registered by somebody or other, much to my immense annoyance. I had to use my real name in my website address instead!

Nobody's got my nickname...

But [Unsuitable link removed by Moderator] sells clothes... that being my real name

Ooh! Ooh! I could get U40382 dot com! Lucky me



I know of at least one h2g2 researcher who has got his nickname as a dot com - [Broken link removed by Moderator]

do not foget to look for .org and .net too