[Wolves] Web hosting for our church

[Peter Cannon]

On Tuesday 13 Jul 2004 00:17, The wise and knowledgeable Stuart Langridge 
proclaimed:

> True enough. Yep, I'm paranoid. However, these websites are just shells
> around the whois command, and on a Linux box we *have* whois as a stock
> command. Websites that run simple unix commands and bang a web front end
> around them are for Windows people :)

You are absolutely right (By the way we/I don't do it (dam)) the other trick 
is to pay some Muppet's to sit at a desk with whois as the main desktop 
feature, then go through the business directory and search for the companies 
name-equivalent and any variations on whois.

Then they ring up (Our customers have rung us about this so it is fact!) and 
say:

"We have had an enquiry to register gotcha-baby.co.uk (or the relevant company 
name), we have noticed this is your company name and wanted to give you a 
chance to register it first before this other company takes it!"

Now heres the clever bit, a lot of peoples natural reaction is "Ooh I'm not 
letting some other git use our name" and agree to purchase but the best laugh 
is they were not looking for one in the first place. 1-0 to the salesman I 
think?

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Regards

Peter Cannon

peter at cannon-linux.freeserve.co.uk

"There is every excuse for not knowing!"
"But there is no excuse for not asking!"