"Clash" of site names

[Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>]

I think the article below says it all.

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In article <32cab1a6.5915759@news.powerup.com.au>, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have a web site called net.friends (www.powerup.com.au/~mpb/nf/), a
>site I originally started in October '95.  
>
>Today I received an email from someone representing Net-Friends.com,
>asking me to change the name of my site, as they've registered their
>name with Internic, and don't want to have to involve Internic (ie,
>getting them to force me to change the site's name).
>
>As you may understand, I don't really *want* to change the site name,
>and I was wondering what options were open to me, if any.  Can they
>really force me to change the site name?
>
>My site is just something I do in my spare time, and which I have put
>many hours into, and with a large membership, I don't really want to
>have to go through changing the name and having everyone have to get
>used to something new.
>
>Any and all help and advice would be greatly appreciated!
>
>Regards,
>
>Mark

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