Date:         Thu, 25 Feb 1999 13:25:52 +0100
Reply-To:     Per Lindgren <lindgre@ONLINE.NO>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Per Lindgren <lindgre@ONLINE.NO>
Subject:      Re: Register your (fill in blank) domain name now!
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The Bus Depot wrote:

> It may not even be a VW related entity that wants the name.  I learned that
> just weeks after I received the busdepot.com domain name, the Business Depot
> (the Canadian division of Office Depot) tried to get the same name.
> Fortunately, I got it first.  :-)
>

Have any of you ever checked out www.caravelle.com? It belongs to Avesta
Technologies, that deal with software solutions. I cant see anywhere on their
site that has anything to do with Caravelle.
What about www.transporter.com? It belongs to Transporter information services,
their front page consists of various catholic links.
www.eurovan.com, then? doesn't look operative at the moment, under construction.

www.golf.com: A golfer society
www.jetta.com: Professional notebook PC supplier since 1991.
www.vento.com: Vento associates, Knoxville, TN
www.corrado.com: Microsoft internet information server.
www.scirocco.com: some sort of internet services.
www.quantum.com: The hard drive factory
www.vanagon.com: You all know this one.

I found only two domains that use any VW model name, that actually belongs to
VW, www.passat.com, and www.sharan.com. The latter brings you to
www.volkswagen.de. How large is the possibility that VW will go after these?
Many of the companies above have something to do with the name of the web pages,
and it will matter what country they are located in, too.

Just a little to chew on....

PerL