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Interesting story of the 90 year old cybergriper:

http://www.huliq.com/21642/pipex-in...ntics-last-straw-for-1-billion-sale-of-uk-isp

Pipex may also have a problem with its claimed intellectual property rights. Another very unwelcome complication when a company is up for sale.

It turns out that a 90 year old British army veteran Alfred Donovan acquired the domain name www. pipextelecommunicationsplc.com a year ago. It is the precise company name of Pipex Communications Plc, which claims trade mark rights to the corresponding dotcom domain name owned by Donovan. On the surface it appeared to be a straightforward case of “cyber-squatting” remedied by action through the World Intellectual Property Organisation, with Donovan being forced to transfer the domain name.

Pipex duly sent an email ultimatum to Donovan threatening proceedings only to discover that he made global news in a landmark domain name case in 2005 when, at the age of 88, he successfully repulsed WIPO proceedings brought by the oil giant Royal Dutch Shell. The action was in relation to the dotcom domain name for Shell’s unified $226 billion company, Royal Dutch Shell Plc.

The domain name in the article is wrong it is actually:

http://www.pipexcommunicationsplc.com

Donovan says “I fought the Japanese in Burma over 60 years ago, so I am not the least bit frightened to take on bullying corporations, multinational or otherwise, which I consider to be grossly inefficient”. Donovan went on to point out “Pipex Chief Executive, Mike Read, was aware of my advanced years, yet evidently had no qualms about issuing an ultimatum threatening me with a law firm which has an army of lawyers”.

APRIL 2007: PIPEX ISSUES ULTIMATUM, THREATENS PROCEEDINGS AGAINST 90 YEAR OLD GRIPE SITE OWNER, ALFRED DONOVAN

http://www.pipexcommunicationsplc.com/email-received-from-david-blackwell-pipex-april-2007.html

Pipex hosted his landmark royaldutchshellplc.com WIPO case win:

http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisions/html/2005/d2005-0538.html

Imagine what we will be like at his age!!!

 

[mally]

Wow, what a great story!!

Good Luck to the Man and we all agree that the service provided by Pipex sucks! (Well I have a similar experience to that Man!)