On July 26, 2010 at 14:42 brunner@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 -- -Barry Shein The World | bzs@TheWorld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD | Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool & Die | Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*