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RE: OT: Consultants!!



Hmm... except it isn't another tenner, is it.
 
It's about another £10k, because if you're really going to be a global company, the only two choices that make sense are:
 
- .com
- .com, .co.uk, .com.au, .fr, .de ......................................... , .za
 
Still, I agree, a bit piss-poor. HOWEVER, based on my experience of such things, it is VERY LIKELY that an external agency came up with the name and no-one in IT, or for that matter, no-one lower than the managing partners/board, had any inkling what it was going to be.
 
I had to pay £2k to get ekingfisher.co.uk from a student who registered it within 20 minutes of the group board announcing they were setting up a Division called "ekingfisher". Of that £2k, £1,500 went to the lawyers.
 
Regards,
 
Mark
 
 
 
 -----Original Message-----
From: fluff [mailto:fluff@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 20 June 2002 18:38
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: RE: [ukha_d] OT: Consultants!!

Well the domain owner is not an employee. And given it would have cost £8 to register that site is a bit poor.
 
They managed to spend £75M on picking the name!!!!!!!!! so another tenner shouldn't have been too hard.
 
A.
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Crowther [mailto:scrowther@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 20 June 2002 16:01
To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] OT: Consultants!!

Sorry, that is NOT disturbing, that is hilarious, and a stroke
of genius...
 
Whoever thought of that in the PriceWaterhouse marketing
department should be rewarded for the best viral marketing
campaign of recent times...
 
a quick Whois search reveals .co.uk registered to Web Consultancy -
wonder if they're linked to PriceWaterhouse?
 
(spot the cynical marketeer...)
 
Of course I might be wrong.

Scott Crowther
Intamac Systems Ltd

-----Original Message-----
From: fluff [mailto:fluff@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 20 June 2002 15:50
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: RE: [ukha_d] OT: Consultants!!

This is seriously doing the rounds in my office, quite a disturbing site.

The problem...

.. I work for them!!

Keep hearing that song every time I walk round the office.

A.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: happy_hammer66 [mailto:bill.mcmahon@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 20 June 2002 15:38
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx> Subject: [ukha_d] OT: Consultants!!
>
>
>
> check this out ...someone made a serious boo-boo....
> load up the .com website first, then look at the other one....
> <http://www.introducingmonday.com>
>
> BUT in the UK they have
> <http://www.introducingmonday.co.uk>
> You have to hand it to the consultants!!!!


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