On July 26, 2010 at 14:42 brun...@nic-naa.net (Eric Brunner-Williams) wrote:
>
> When Hewlett-Packard wrote to ICANN earlier this year that it should
> get .hp, the obvious rejoinder was "Buy a country like everyone else,
> submit a change request to the iso3166/MA, and do business under .hp,
> your new country code property." Apparently HP didn't want to actually
> buy a country first. Cheapskates.
HP doesn't even have HP as a stock symbol, that'd be Helmerich &
Payne, a contract oil/gas driller. The computer company can be traded
under symbol HPC.
"Happy name spaces are all alike; every unhappy name space is unhappy
in its own way." -- !Tolstoy
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