I've had my Domain name registered for about 10 years or so and it is paid up till 2010. My domain is:

PhoenixHobbies.com

I have just discovered an overseas company that is using what I feel is a direct copy of my domain. They are using this with just .au tacked on the end.

Phoenixhobbies.com.au

Can they do this? Anybody know who to contact about these kinds of disputes?
All suggestions welomed


Paul

yes.

Well, that sucks, I'll have to see If Phoenixhobbies.com.au.us is available

it is... =)

you would get www.au.us. then put the phoenixhobbies in front of it when you designed your site.

too funny.

All australian websites have .AU on the end of them. Just as the UK websites have .UK Every country has its own country code in the domain name, except the US, since it all started here. There is a possibility of www.phoenixhobbies.co.uk as well...

And you will get an email from THE internet registrar in china who will claim that Woohak Invertment Co. wants to register phoenixhobbies.cn and phoenixhobbies.hk and you get first dibs.

Go to www.python.org. Then, when the wife and kiddies aren't around, visit www.python.com. It does suck that they can do that, but these days, once you have a name you want, you need to carve out a larger chunk of the domain name space to keep the vermin at bay.

Skip Montanaro