HW: Domain Names - A Suggestion

[Eli Friedman]

Wow...after days of legal briefs and obtuse ravings comes a constructive
suggestion...
I'd be happy to foot the whole 50 dollars if this matter could be so easily
resolved. I'd really like to see everybody win here. Andy has run a great
site, and I would want to see it return in a new "unofficial"  guise. And I'd
like to thank Andy for providing so much timely info to so many for quite a
while now, and for his hard, constant work on the site.
However I totally respect Hawkwind's interest in controlling what online info
is disseminated to its fan base in its name, and feel that the band is
deserving of owning the info that goes on a site bearing their name. And I
can't imagine that any fan of the band isn't sympathetic to the position that
Hawkwind found themselves in when "their" site was hosting a page promoting
The Greasy Truckers Event featuring "Members of the Hawkestra." At any rate I
feel sorry for any idiot (let the flame wars begin) that has the unmitigated
gall to encourage Hawkwind fans on this list to  boycott Dave brock's album
over Hawkwind asserting their ownership of their own name. This list is a
tribute to Hawkwind and the brilliance of Dave Brock over the past 30 years.
Let's try and keep that straight at least. And let's try to put the old
Hawkwind.com site back on the net with a new domain name. What does Andy
think? Any interest in keeping it going for the fans who do appreciate it
with a change of web-address? This fan and Dave Greenlhalg would welcome it
back. Thanks for reading, Eli Friedman

In a message dated 10/7/01 8:08:31 PM, DGreenhalg at AOL.COM writes:

<< People, enough already.  Like most of the people on here I don't know
Andy, but I do know Welcome to the Future.  It was one of the best
band-sites going. I want to see the content back, somewhere, anywhere.
So a suggestion.  If Andy can't have Hawkwind.com, and fair enough, that
*should* belong to the band, let's just find something else he *can*
have.

Someone said Hawklords.net or similar is up for grabs for 50 dollars or
so. There are people on this list who pay hundreds of dollars to fly
half way round the world to see Hawkwind. Surely we can stump up a
dollar each to buy the name and hosting fees.  If Andy is willing, and
if the band give a reconciliatory gesture of allowing him to use the
imagery and iconography, then Andy can get out the middle of row that is
really nothing to do with him. We get the resource back and the lawyers
for Dave and Doug can have their little spats in private.

OK, maybe Andy would have to do a search to make sure that the "O" word
is missing from all the banners, but that's not a chore, surely. Let's
stop throwing bricks at each other, get "Welcome to the Future" and
Mission Control working side-by-side and we ordinary mortals can get
back to talking about music with two high quality reference sources for
the arguments about the musical merits of Nik.

Maybe this fracas could even get the Codex back in band favour. Bootlegs
are out there, like it or not. I've got them, you've got them, hell,
even "XXX" has *asked* for copies on this list in the past. They can
only eat into the band's financial interest when they are better quality
than the "official" live releases, such as they are.

Another disjointed rant from the desk of Dave (G not B)