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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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