News archive December 2000 - Koos van den Hout

Using the Internet to find information about my domain name case has shown me again what a great thing the Internet is in sharing information, making it available and being able to find it.

I wish everybody visiting this page (more visitors then I expected) Prettige Kerstdagen en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar / a Merry Christmas and a Happy Newyear.

I received a letter from a lawyer representing the publishers of Asterix & Obelix basically telling me that IDEFIX is their trademark in certain areas and that since I do nothing serious with idefix.net I must be holding it to mislead people searching for information about idefix so I should give up the domain name for free to them right now. I'm looking for legal help on this matter. I also updated the main page to help other people who cannot think further then a domain name being for a website on www.domainname/ (mutter mutter).

Huhhuh, he said election

My page in the Elite Warez Network at Cetis has been removed. The other place you can still find it is http://www.bofh.net/~koos/warez.html.

I bought a car today, a Volvo 440 dl

Received the DVD of Creature Comforts today. It's some of the older stuff from Aardman Studio's and it's really great.