what is going on?

[Paul Mather]

On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Moonglum . wrote:

=> Nik or some nominee of his has just registered the domain name
=> hawkwind.co.uk, this is why going to that address shows you all this nik
=> turner stuff.

"Just" registered it, in geologic time, maybe. :-)  It was actually
registered on 1998-09-28:


   Domain Name: HAWKWIND.CO.UK

   Registered For: SCL Ceredigion

   Domain Registered By: SCL

   Registered on 29-Sep-1998.

   Record last updated on 25-Aug-2000 by jt at Nominet.

   Domain servers listed in order:

   NS.SCL.CO.UK                      212.38.81.5
   NS1.US.NET-WORK.NET               206.246.91.2

   WHOIS database last updated at 01:35:01 05-Nov-2001


Obviously Nik was well ahead of the game, and recognised the importance
of securing an Internet presence even back then.

Cheers,

Paul.

e-mail: paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu

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