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IP: Is HP Internet savvy? You be the judge.

From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 18:14:25 -0400

To: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
From: Ari Ollikainen <Ari () Packetcom com>
Subject: Is HP Internet savvy? You be the judge.


        HP names spinoff but goofs web presence

        HP's spinoff is Agilent ... and one might expect their
        URL to be www.agilent.com BUT there's a little problem.
        agilent.com is already taken by Agile Enterprises, a division
        of Applied Graphics Technologies!

        How did HP stub its toe so badly? Easy...IF one does a WHOIS
        for agilent at NSI, it returns a "No match for "AGILENT"" leading
        the searcher to believe that the matching domain is available.
        Which is probably where HP's due diligence ended. Unfortunately,
        searching for agilent.com would have yielded a totally different
        result, namely that the domain is in use...


       Ari Ollikainen                       Packetcom Inc.
       650.849.3623                         2800-A West Bayshore Rd.
       Ari () packetcom com                    Palo Alto, CA 94303

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