Domain Registration Related News
Boot's on the other foot for royal wellie
maker
August 2004
Henry Maxwell, bootmakers to the British Royal
Family, recently lost their domain name
henrymaxwell.com after they forgot to renew it,
allowing it to be swept up and re-registered by
a Swiss registrant who now uses the domain as a
porn site.
Henry Maxwell has been one of London's leading
shoemakers for the last 250 years and were
responsible for making the first ever
"Wellington riding boot" - a cut-down version of
the full-length boot worn by British army
cavalry officers - for the 1st Duke of
Wellington.
They had registered and used the domain
henrymaxwell.com for email and a web page
advertising their services since 2001. However,
they neglected to renew the domain, resulting in
it being deleted and consequently re-registered
by a third party who now uses it as a less than
family-friendly web site. As well as the
immediate embarrassment, the company will also
have to deal with the cost and inconvenience of
re-printing stationery and other promotional
materials - all of which will be directing their
potential and existing clients to a pornographic
web site.
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